May 15, 2012 - Sale 2279

Sale 2279 - Lot 314

Price Realized: $ 281
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Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
EUSTACE, JOHN CHETWODE. A Classical Tour through Italy An. MDCCCII . . . Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. 10 engraved plans; folding map of Italy. 2 volumes. 4to, contemporary 1/2 russia, spines worn, joints cracked or starting; plans foxed, map heavily browned, offsetting onto adjacent leaves, half-titles lacking. London, 1814
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First published the preceding year, "the standard vade-mecum of classical tourists. While the guide was antiquarian in tone . . . it was eloquent in its denunciation of contemporary absolutism and its championship of Italian liberty" (ODNB). Pine-Coffin 789/5. with: Hoare, Richard Colt, Sir. A Classical Tour through Italy and Sicily, tending to illustrate Some Districts, which have not been described by Mr. Eustace, in his Classical Tour . . . Second Edition. Engraved frontispiece map in Volume 1 (foxed, offsetting onto title). Half-titles. 2 volumes. 8vo, 19th-century calf by Carss, Glasgow, worn, rebacked. Pine-Coffin 802/2.