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    By Henry Swinburne
    London   Printed by J. Nichols for T. Cadell, and P. Elmsly
    8.5" by 5.5" lxviii, 303; xi, 359; viii, 414; viii, 394pp
    The complete second edition of this comprehensive Sicily travelogue from English writer Henry Swinburne, with folding plates.
    By Henry Swinburne

    1790 Travels in the Two Sicilies

    London   Printed by J. Nichols for T. Cadell, and P. Elmsly
    8.5" by 5.5" lxviii, 303; xi, 359; viii, 414; viii, 394pp
    The complete second edition of this comprehensive Sicily travelogue from English writer Henry Swinburne, with folding plates.
    £995.00
    : 1.5kgs / : 980Y34
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    Folding Plates, Illustrated, Leather Binding

    The second edition. Complete in four volumes.

    Uniformly bound in half calf, with marbled boards.

    Illustrated with a folding genealogical table of the sovereigns of the Two Sicilies, folding map and twenty-two folding plates and plans, including two panoramas of Palermo and Messina. 

    Collated, complete. 

    This work recounts Henry Swinburne's travels in Sicily (at that time known as the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies) from 1777-1780, preceding his journey with a short sketch of the history of Naples and interweaving his observations of the inhabitants, topography and culture with societal and historical context throughout. 

    Swinburne was an English travel writer whose accounts of journeys around Europe have been widely translated. 

    Condition

    Uniformly bound in half calf, with marbled boards. Externally, with rubbing to the extremities and fading to the spines. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with tide marks to the endpapers and scattered spots to the first and last couple leaves. Contemporary ownership inscription to the title pages.

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