[HISTORY OF POLAND]. De La Harpe J.-F., Coxe W. - Compendio della storia generale de' viaggi. Continuazione dell' opera di M. De La Harpe Accademico Parigino (Volume I). Venice 1792, edited by Francesco Tosi.

[HISTORY OF POLAND]. De La Harpe J.-F., Coxe W. - Compendio della storia generale de' viaggi. Continuazione dell' opera di M. De La Harpe Accademico Parigino (Volume I). Venice 1792, published by Francesco Tosi. 317 pp, 8°. Frontispiece portrait of Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski after Töpffer and Baciarelli; in addition, the work comes with an engraving on ornithological themes and four fold-out maps: a map of the Republic of Poland measuring 41x36 cm, as well as three maps depicting the Russian, Prussian and Austrian partitions. Half leather cover of the period. Rare.

Missing from the combined catalogs of Polish libraries (in BN only the frontispiece engraving). - Rare and little known Italian edition of the diary of William Coxe's (1747-1828) journey through the Republic during the reign of Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski. It constitutes Volume I of a longer series, which was devoted to European travel in general. Its originator was the Frenchman Jean-François de La Harpe, who in 1780 published a 32-volume compilation of the diaries and reports of various European travelers (Abrégé de l'histoire générale des voyages). An Italian version began to be published in 1792.