[EHRENSVÄRD, CARL AUGUST].

Resa til Italien, 1780, 1781, 1782. Skrifven 1782 i Stralsund. Ny Upplaga.

Stockholm, Tryckt Hos Carl Deleen, 1819.

Clean and well-preserved copy bound in cotemporary half calf with gilt and blind tooled decorations on spine. With 38 handcoloured plates. Old name on titlepage. Inserted in a protective plastic cover. (4), 84 pp.

This volume has been called the most beautiful Swedish book of the 18th century. Lindberg, Swedish Books, 52 about the first edition from 1786. This is the fourth, but second illustrated edition, and as it is as fine as the first, very rare in so good a state as offered here. "The question of who made the etchings is open to different opinions. The brothers Elias and Johan Fredrik Martin, both important artists, have been mentioned as Mårten Rudolf Heland." (Lindberg op.cit.).
Kleberg, Italien i svensk litteratur 2226. Hofberg, Sv. biogr. handlex. I, 279. NBG XV, 750.

Order-nr.: 62031