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[Italy] [Geology] SPALLANZANI (Abbot Lazarro).
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[Italy] [Geology] SPALLANZANI (Abbot Lazarro).
See original version (French)
Estimate €150 - €250
Voluntary lot
Description
[Italy] [Geology] SPALLANZANI (Abbot Lazarro). Travels in the Two Sicilies and in certain parts of the Apennines. Paris, published by Maradan, Year VIII [1799]. 6 tomes in 3 volumes, 8vo, full post-cord leather.
7 folding engraved plates, 5 of which are devoted to volcanoes.
Second French translation, entirely new, of the account of the scientific journeys undertaken by Lazzaro Spallanzani (1729–1799) in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and the Apennines. It was compiled by Georges Toscan and enriched with notes by Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond.
At the end of volume VI, 21 handwritten pages from the period have been bound in, containing an ‘Epistle to Abbé Spallanzani’ (8 pp), followed by an ‘Extract on the Pelasgian citadels, built, like the paving of the city of Rome and the Appian Way, from lava’ (pp. 9–21).
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About the sale
Antique and modern books: catalogued sale
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Auction time
11/14/2026 at 10:30 AM
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