‎ROGISSART, ALEXANDRE DE.‎
‎Les Delices de l'Italie, ou Description exacte de ce pays, de ses Principales Villes, et de toutes les raretez, qu'il contient. 3 vols. - [THE RARE FIRST EDITION]‎

‎Leide, Pierre van de Aa, 1706. 8vo. Uniformly bound in three contemporary full calf bindings with five raised bands and richly gilt spines. Edges of boards gilt. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spines. Wear to extremities, boards with scratches with some loss of leather. Internally with a few small worm-tracts but generally a good copy.Vol. 1: (16), 275 pp. + Engraved half-title, engraved half-title and 43 plates (out of 45)Vol. 2: 277-554 pp. + Engraved half-title, engraved title-page and 49 plates (out of 55).Vol. 3: 555-718, (62), 9, (1) pp. + Engraved half-title, engraved title-page and 46 plates (out of 50).‎

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‎First edition of this rare and important travel guide to Italy - the first in what became a travel guide series in small format. Despite its popularity and the numerous editions in which the work was published not much is know about Alexandre de Rogissart Pieter van der Aa was a Dutch publisher, cartographer, and bookseller. Van der Aa is best known for his cartographic works and atlases, which were highly regarded for their accuracy and detail. Brunet IV, 1354Graesse VI, 147.‎