SIMOND (Louis). Voyage en Italie et en Sicile, Paris, A. Sau - Lot 203

SIMOND (Louis). Voyage en Italie et en Sicile, Paris, A. Sautelet et Cie, 1828. 2 vols. in-8, [2] f., VIII-405 p. + [2] f., 420 p., contemporary half-cream with corners, spine with 4 nerves, gilt title and tomaison, gilt friezes, fillets and fleurons, fleurons and cold fillets (rubs, notably to the headpieces, 4 broken and dull corners; usual light russets). 2 plates including a gondola with six rowers, and 1 table of population movements in Rome (1800-1817), and a few illustrations in-t. The journey takes in the Borromean Islands, Milan, Padua, Venice, Pisa, Rome, Naples, Sicily, Sardinia, Genoa and Susa. The entire work is punctuated by comments on manners and sometimes on political life. Ex-libris label repeated R.N.; four library inventory labels.