[SARDINIA] - AZUNI (Dominique Albert). Geographical, political and natural history of Sardinia. Paris and Strasbourg, Levrault, year X (1802). 2 vol. in-8, bradel salmon coloured boards, black title page (Binding of the period). 2 ff. XIX pp. 369 pp. - 2 ff. 404 pp. Very enlarged second edition of a book which first appeared in 1798 in a single volume. Azuni, a lawyer by training, was born in Sassari in Sardinia in 1749 and died in 1826. Large map of Sardinia drawn and engraved by Perrier, complete with 7 plates engraved by Tardieu l'aîné: mouflone, seps, tiligugu, bearded vulture, map of the madrague, nets of the madrague. Wear to boards, good condition inside and complete with all plates. Spine insolate. The first volume is dedicated to the political, social and administrative world, while the second is a complete treatise on terrestrial and marine fauna, flora and minerals, as well as scientific notions on the description of fisheries... AP