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BARETTI, JOSEPH. An Account of the Manners and Customs of Italy; with Observations on the Mistakes of Some Travellers with Regard to that Country. xvi, 317, [3]; vii, [1], 329, [3], including final blanks. 2 volumes. 8vo, contemporary calf, spines quite worn; titles lightly toned, contents otherwise clean. London: T. Davies et al., 1768
first edition of a defense of the author's native country written in response to Samuel Sharp's 1766 Letters from Italy (see lot 328). Pine-Coffin 768/2.
