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[ITALIAN ART]. COCHIN, Charles-Nicolas. Voyage d'Italie, ou recueil de notes Sur les Ouvrages de Peinture & de Sculpture, qu'on voit dans les principales villes d'Itlaie.

A Paris. Chez Ch. Ant. Jombert, 1758.
12mo. In three volumes. xvi, 230; [4], 197, [1]; [4], 288pp. Attractively bound in contemporary cats-paw calf, gilt, all edges red. Rubbed with slight surface loss. Marbled endpapers, index to rear blank endpapers of Vol. I., ink- stamps of the Ben Damph Forest Library - family seat of the Earls of Lovelace - to all FFEPs.
A travelogue and guide to the artworks of Italy produced following a journey of two years conducted by French engraver and critic, Charles-Nicolas Cochin (1715-1790), undertaken in part in the company of Abel Francois Poisson, brother of mistress to Louis XV Madame de Pompadour.
£ 750.00 Antiquates Ref: 13524