Two volumes. Volume One. 1740. [xlii], 364 pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait, title-page printed in red and black, folding plan. Volume Six. 1711. Engraved frontispiece, two-color title-page, folding plan. 314, [8] pp. Uniformly bound: 6x3¾, full original vellum, titles stamped in gilt on spines.

First published in Italian in 1684, the work became a best seller, was translated into several languages and reprinted many times. Volume One with a stunning fold-out plan of Paris, Volume Six with one of Constantinople.