Travel Journal through Italy

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BROSSES, President of - Preface by Marie-Thérèse de BROSSES - Text from the revised edition based on manuscripts and annotated by Romain COLOMB. Published in GRENOBLE by Roissard in 1971. Paperback with slipcase and box (corners worn) - Complete in 2 volumes in-4° format. One of the copies on pure Lana paper. A pleasant copy of Charles de Brosses, count of Tournay, baron of Montfalcon, lord of Pregny, Chambezy, Vezins, and Prevessin, known as “the president of Brosses”, was a French magistrate, historian, linguist, and writer (Dijon, February 7, 1709 - Paris, May 7, 1777). Volume I. 288 pages. Journey from Dijon to Avignon, Avignon, Marseille, Genoa, Milan, Verona, Vicenza, Padua, Venice, Bologna, Florence, Livorno, Rome, Naples, Excursion to Vesuvius, Baja, Pozzuoli, Ercolano, Vesuvius. Volume II. 301 pages. Rome, Tivoli, Milan, Turin, Italy.