Travels of Cosmo the Third, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Through England, During the Reign of King Charles the Second (1669). Translated from the Italian Manuscript in the Laurentian Library at Florence. To Which is Prefixed, a Memoir of His Life. Illustrated with a Portrait of His Highness, and Thirty-Nine Views of the Metropolis, Cities, Towns, and Noblemen's and Gentlemen's Seats, as Delineated at That Period by Artists in the Suite of Cosmo. London: Printed for J. Mawman, 1821.
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Provenance:
Ex-library bookplate of the Marquis of Stafford with the shelf mark "E.L.4."
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Size: 237 x 303 mm (approx.)
Condition:
[half title, frontis, t.p., 506pp., 2ff.]
Full brown calf with a gilt crest to the front board, with the motto, in French, "Honi. Soi Al. Y. Pense" (shame on him who thinks evil of it). All thirty-nine plates and the frontispiece present as listed in the Directions to the Binder. Bindings rubbed and scuffed, more so to extremities. Shelf and edge wear. Both boards attached with cracked joints and hinges, thus fragile. Marbled page edges somewhat dulled. The foldout plate of the View of London sticks out of the page block. Ex-library bookplate attached to the front pastedown with surrounding pencil inscriptions. Pencil inscription to front blank. Some edge toning to endpapers. Frontispiece foxed. Text block very clean with light toning and very occasional foxing. Plates lightly foxed.
