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SAINT NON (SAINT-NOM-LA-BRETECHE), ABBE' JEAN CLAUDE RICHARD DE.
VOYAGE PITTORESQUE OU DESCRIPTION DES ROYAUMES DE NAPLES ET DE SICILIE. PARIS, CLOUSIER, 1781-86.
4 parts in 5 vols. (Vol. 1 issued in 2 parts (part 2 taking the place of vol. 2), vol. 4 issued in 2 parts). Large folio (51,5 x 35,5 cm.). 20th centruy half calf, with the old spines preserved and mounted: richly gilt in compartments with red and black title labels, lettered in gold. Each vol. with half-title, title with engraved vignette (four by Fragonard, one by Bertheaut) and many beautiful vignettes.In total: one folding, 8 double-page and one full-page maps, and 278 full-page plates with 363 plans, views and illustrations of paintings and antiquities.<B>Vol. 1</B>: with engraved dedication to the Queen, one folding map (unnumb.) of the 'Royaumes de Naples et de Sicile by Clermont', dated 1780, two double-page maps of The Golf of Naples and surroundings, numbered 118 and 110), one full-page plan of Naples, numbered 46 and 47 full-page plates, numbered: 16-7, 47-8, 33, 41-2, 40, 44, 60, 39, 57, 37, 15, 52, 89, 67, 92, 71, 70, 20, 8, 1, 9, 2, 10, 18, 26, 34, 56, 58, 66, 106, 93, 30-2, 35, 25, 64, 43-4, 53, 117, 111, 103, and 102; <B>Vol. 2</B>: one double-page map of the 'Golfe de Pouzzoles', numbered 96, one full-page unnumbered map of Naples and surroundings, and 79 full-page plates, numbered: 36, 30, 91, 61, 54, 62, 68, 38, 21-2, 55, 100, 109, 99, 104, 65, 114-5, 3-4, 13, 45, 101, 108, 107, 95, 28-9, 1bis-8bis, 73-88, 72, 63, 69, 5, 7, 6, 112-3, 105, 19, 59, 51, 27, 90, 49, 14, 23, 50, 116, 123, 125-6, 124, 119-22 (missing are plate 75bis and the unnumbered plate with antique phalluses, (not called for in the book, but according to Brunet to be present); 26 of the vignettes in this volume of antique works of art - most by Saint Non, one by Plessis Bertaux after a plate by Winkelman - are coloured in sepia; <B>Vol. 3</B>: 4 double-page maps, numbered 11 (Southern Italy & Sicily), 25 (Region Bari, Otranto, Brindisi), 54 (Southern Italy) and one unnumbered: the Peutinger map, not called for in the book, and 60 full-page plates, 37 of which contain two views, numbered series 'Grand Grece', 1-10, 12-24, 26-53, 55-86, 13 (=87), 24bis (=88; both those plates in first state (see Brunet)), 89-100; <B>Vol. 4-5</B>: one double-page map of Sicily (1784, numbered 1, 91 full-page plates of maps (nrs. 39 and 82), plans (nrs. 79, 106, 109), 48 of which contain two views; the plates are numbered 2-140. With numerous head and tail pieces and vignettes, including the 14 large vignettes (the 'doubles medailles') at the end of Chapter 1-14 of vol. 4,1 (Brunet calls for 14 extra leaves on which these vignettes are repated and separately bound in).The plates are designed, engraved and finished by many different, partly very famous artists of the time, including A(l)lix, Aubin, Auguste de S., Auvrai, Bertheaut, Bretin, Brunsault, Carpentier, Casas, Chasselet, Chastelet, Chofferd, Coyni, Dambrum, De Bosredon, De Ghendt, De Longueil, Delvaux, Denijs, Joh., Desmoulins, Despres, Desquauvilliers, Du Parc, Du Plessis Bertaux, Duflos, P., Dumoulin, Durameau, Embrun, Epire, Fessard, Fragonard, H., Germain, Germain, Guttenberg, Charles, Guttenberg, H., Hovet, B., Lienard, Macret, Malbeste, Marilier, Martini, Masquelier, Mathieu, Nicollet, Paris, Queverdo, Queverdo, Racine, J.B., Renard, Robert, H., Sellier, Stagnon, Tierce, J.B., Vangelisti, Varin, Vernet, Volaire, and Weisbrod. (4), XV, 252; xxviii, 1-78, (2), 79-108, (6), 109- 284; (4), iv, xl, 1-112, (4), 113-130, 8, 131-201, 7-22; (4), xviii, (4), 292; iv, (2), 293-430 pp. Original edition of this magnificent lavishly illustrated work on the Kingdoms of Naples and Sicily (the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies), "One of the monuments of French eighteenth-century book production" (Blackmer Catalogue). The work has shaped the image of southern Italy as seen for instance by Winkelman at the end of the era of the Grand Tour, and just preceding famous travellers like Goethe, who in 1787 may have been inspired by the work to visit Paestum, a then very remote and still virtually unknown site. It evokes not only
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