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GIGAULT DE LA SALLE, Achille Etienne.] Select Views in Sicily accompanied by a historical and descriptive account . London: by John Weale, 1825. 2° (359 x 258mm). 36 aquatint plates after De Forbin, Cassas and others, 7 fully hand-coloured, the rest coloured in grey wash. The monochrome plates on India paper, mounted. (Spotting to many monochrome plates, heavier spotting to text.) Modern calf-backed boards. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Abbey notes that this book "is an English version of the Voyage Pittoresque en Sicile 1822-26, with a selection of the views engraved in a smaller size by ... the same group of engravers, although they have not necessarily engraved the same subjects as they did in the larger work ... the book is uncommon, and may have originally been issued in parts (probably four plates per part), for the unnumbered and unfoliated leaves are typical of the slender part issues ...." Abbey Travel 264.