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24-1 - Italy - Sicily - ORVILLE (Jacques-Philippe d').
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Italy - Sicily - ORVILLE (Jacques-Philippe d'). Sicula, in which the ruins of ancient Sicily are illustrated, with added plates of antiquities. [...] Amsterdam, Gérard Tielenburg, 1764. 2 volumes (continuous pagination) in one folio volume, modern amateur binding in green percaline. Rare first edition of this sought-after work, devoted to the antiquities of Sicily, published by Pieter Burman the Younger. The illustrations consist of a portrait engraved by Houbraken after Quinkhard, a repeated title vignette, a heraldic banner, and 52 (of 54) out-of-text plates, including 20 numismatic plates. Plates 29 (p. 268 A) and 34 (p. xxv) are missing. A few small foxing spots. (Brunet, IV, 247; Cicognara, no. 2689.)
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