In 8° (mm 190x120); pp. (10), 488, 32 copper-engraved plates outside text, including allegorical antiporta, including 5 maps and many beautiful views of Venice (11) and cities of the domain. Beautiful coeval marbled brown marbled hardback binding with title and gold friezes on orange gusset at spine, blue cuts. Sought-after volume of this well-known and classic work of eighteenth-century Italian vedutismo because of the wealth of beautiful illustrative plates, often sold individually, which is why it is increasingly difficult to find a complete copy in good condition, as is our volume. Among the beautiful views a general view of Venice and numerous partials, as well as perspective plans and views (general and partial) of Treviso, Udine, Cividale, Belluno and numerous Dalmatian and Greek localities in addition to maps repeatedly rep. of Trevigiano, Friuli, Istria, Dalmatia, Greece. Very good copy with slight halo to lower corner, tear restorations to verso of repeatedly folded maps, minimal traces of time. Binding in very good condition. The work, originally written in English, published between 1737 and 1766 and soon translated into major European languages, originally comprised 26 volumes. Thomas Salmon (1679-1767), English historian, geographer and polygraph, traveled in Europe and the East and West Indies, accompanying George Anson on his journey around the world. According to William Cole, an English antiquarian, Salmon wrote most of his work in Cambridge, where he ran a coffee house, later moving to London. The work has been the subject of numerous translations, remakes and imitations in various languages and was printed in Venice in Italian by Albrizzi over a period of several years, enriched with numerous original copperplate engravings, not found in the English version; it traces a careful historical analysis of the nations of the world, enriched by geographical and artistic descriptions of the cities. Cf. Morazzoni, p. 253. Cremonini, 64.