Itinerarium Curiosum: Or, an Account of the Antiquitys and Remarkable Curiositys in Nature or Art, Observed in Travels through Great Britain

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212 plates (7 folding), second edition, VG, 2 parts bound as 1, 1776, in near contemporary diced calf, gilt edge tooling. Re-spined, old laid down, raised bands, gilt tooling, gilt title to black calf label. Internally, frontis portrait frontis, [2], [10] preface 1, [5], (viii-x) preface 2, [1], 2- 205, [2] pl list, [4] index, 107 plates (5 folding, 178 views, includes 2 frontices). Part 2, 1776, [4], [1], 2-177 pp, [1], [2] index, [8] index, [2] pl list, 105 plates (2 folding, 112 views, includes 2 small pls - coins & signatures), blue marbled endpapers & text block edges, scattered very faint spotting, corrections inserted by hand in two hands, previous owners ink initial stamp to title foot, bookplates to fpd (Elliot library label & David W Phillipson), short repaired closed tear to margin p109 not affecting pl. (351*216 mm). (ESTC T145546. Allibone 2296. Graesse p515). A very clean and bright example, complete. Plates depict topographical, architectural & archaeological views, monuments, signatures, ports, churches, and much more. The Library label has the arms of Sir Gilbert Elliot (1722-77) , 3rd Baronet of Minto. He was Treasurer to the Navy, in which he amassed papers relating to the "Boston Tea Party", which are now in Harvard University Library.