Voyage pittoresque, ou, Description des royaumes de Naples et de Sicile.

  • Saint Non, Jean Claude Richard de, 1727-1791.
Date:
1781-86
  • Books

About this work

Publication/Creation

Paris : [Imprimerie de Clousier], 1781-86.

Physical description

4 volumes, plates (some folded, some color) : illustrations, maps, portraits (engravings) ; 51 cm (folio)

Contributors

Notes

Author's name given in dedication and privilege
Printed by Clousier for Lafosse: cf. Brunet, Graesse, Quérard
Vol. 1 described on t.p. as "Première partie du premier volume", but is complete
V. 4 issued in 2 pts., with continuous pagination
Vol. 1, pt. 1, pp. [1]-56 includes a "Précis historique de révolutions de Naples et de Sicile" by S.R.N. Chamfort
Vol. 3 includes an inserted section (22, [6] p.) after p. 130, describing the Messina earthquake of Feb. 1783, including on pp. [7]-22 a translation of a letter from Sir William Hamilton to Sir Joseph Banks
Text of v. 4 (Sicily) largely by Vivant Denon. The vol. also includes accounts of volcanoes etc. by D.G. de Dolomieu on p. 91-104, 231-236, 336-346, and 387-411
Engraved t.p. vignettes
Copy 1 v. 1. Note: Bookplates of Gigot d'Orcy, Reçeveur Général des Finances (with name erased), and of John Howard, Earl of Suffolk & Berkshire
Copy 1 v. 4 pt. 2 Note: Bookplates of Gigot d'Orcy, Reçeveur Général des Finances and of John Howard, Earl of Suffolk & Berkshire

References note

Grässe, t. 6 ptie 1, pp. 225-6
Brunet, t. 5 ptie 1, p. 55.

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Holdings

  • Vol. 2 wanting

Where to find it

  • Vol. 1

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    Closed stores
    EPB/F/1037.v1

  • Vol. 3

    LocationStatusAccess
    Closed stores
    EPB/F/1037.v3

  • Vol. 4, Part I

    LocationStatusAccess
    Closed stores
    EPB/F/1037.v4.I

  • Vol 4, Part II

    LocationStatusAccess
    Closed stores
    EPB/F/1037.v4.II

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