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Nouveau Voyage D'Italie; Maximilien Misson
The Hague: Henri van Bulderen 1691 - 1694. A mixed set Vol 1 being the first edition and vol 2 the 1694 second edition, making a complete set of the work, a further volume was publised in 1698. Apparently complete with 54 plates, 36 in the first volume and 18 in the second, although plates vary between copies. 12mo., 155 x 95 mm 319pp + index and 352pp + index. Uniformly bound in near-contemporary French dark calf, vol 2 rebacked with new spine. Wear to pp 207 and 208 with small section of text missing. Vol 1 with additional engraved title page. The description of a voyage to Italy made by the author in 1687-88, which served for fifty years as the essential European guide book to the Grand Tour. François-Maximilien Misson (ca. 1650-1722), a Protestant from Lyon, was forced to seek refuge with his family in England upon the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. His father became a minister within the Huguenot community of London, and Misson found employment as tutor to Charles Butler, later Earl of Arran. It was with his pupil that Misson undertook the Grand Tour of which he gave an account in this book. The two traveled to Italy via Rotterdam, Cologne, Munich and Innsbruck, crossing the Brenner Pass, then to Verona and Venice, visiting points of interest in and near Naples, making a long visit to Rome, and returning via Bologna, Milan, Genoa, Turin, Geneva, Strasbourg and Brussels. His work, in the form of a series of letters, describes every locale visited and is "resoundingly modern" in tone, containing an orderly account of "first-hand factual observations augmented by the critical perspective of a protestant travelling through a Catholic country" (Oxford DNB). First published in 1691, translated into English in 1695, the work was hugely popular and was frequently reprinted with additions and enlargements. The fine engraved plates show detailed and accurate views of the principal sites from the major Italian and other European cities, monuments, objects, animals and plants of local interst, and regional costumes. Rossetti 7093 (describing 38 plates in vol. 1 but stating that "the number of plates may vary from copy to copy") and 7094. Borroni, Bibliografia dell archeologia classica (Florence 1962) 3125/1. 
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