LALANDE, Joseph Jérôme Le Français de. Voyage en Italie: contenant l'histoire & les anecdotes les plus singulieres de l'Italie, & sa description ; les usages, le gouvernement ... avec des jugemens sur les ouvrages de peinture, sculpture & architecture, & les plans des toutes les grandes villes d'Italie. Seconde edition corrigée & augmentée. Nine volumes. A rare survival uncut and unpressed in the original blue sugar paper wrappers, using waste sheets from other printed work. Some slight curling to page edges. Not unsurprisingly the quarto volume of plates, often missing, is not present in this wrappered set. Scarce, Copac records Manchester, Cortauld, and UCL only. 8vo. a Paris: Chez la veuve Desaint. 1786. With the library label of ‘Cortachy Castle, Dining Room’. Possibly acquired three years before the French Revolution when a family member visited France, possibly on the Grand Tour.