ITALY CLASSICAL HISTORICAL AND PICTURESQUE
ILLUSTRATED INA SERIES OF VIEWS
PRECEDED BY AN INTRODUCTORY ESSAY ON THE RECENT HISTORY AND PRESENT CONDITION OF ITALY AND THE ITALIANS
BY CAMILLO MAPEI
BLACKIE AND SON
GLASGOW
First edition of 1850 circa of this very fine work of italian views by Camillo Mapei (1809-1853) italian priest and theologian.
Mapei was one of the most important carachter of italian protestantism of Risorgimento period, patriot and political exilated.
The views are after drawings of different artists as Brockedon, Stanfield, Roberts, Harding, Prout, Leitch e Barnard.
For each view description and introductive essay about political, religious and mopral condition of that period.
The city in the views: Vicenza, Nizza, Ventimiglia, Genova, Lerici, Carrara, Pisa, Firenze, Certaldo, Siena, Arezzo, Cortona, Perugia, Chiusi, Radicofani, Bolsena, Viterbo, Orvieto, Narni, Cascata delle MArmore a Terni, Civita Castellana, Civita VEcchia, Roma, Pratica, Castel Gandolfo, Olevano, Terracina, Napoli, Castellammare di Stabia, Sorrento, Meta, Amalfi, Paestum, REggio, Benevento, Isola di Sora, Subiaco, Assisi, Loreto, Ancona, Bologna, Ferrara, Padova, Venezia, Bassano, Brescia, Rocca d'Anfo, Bergamo, Louvere, Como, Varese, Milano, Pavia, Val Lucerna, Forte Bard.
In good conditions and complete.
Half leather coeval cover with golden title in the spine in good general conditions lightly worn in the edges and spine. Binding in good conditions. Pages are in good conditions with occasional foxings. Light water swtain in the upper edge of almost the whole volume. The view of Louvere has been bound in a wrong position. In 4. Dim. 34x26x5 cm. Pp. II+2+CVIII+160+(61). Peso Kg. 2,9