GUIDA D'ITALIA ITALIAN GUIDE 1775

sold to bn sf cal 2021

ITALIAN GUIDE 1775 Of Greatest rarity

A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE ROADS OF ITALY

With 51 pages of descriptive English text and

23 large folding engraved road maps by Filippo Conti

VIAGGIO DA BOLOGNA A PADOVA etc.

Map sizes up to 50-60cms in width

List of Plates bound in at the end of text

Armory engraved ExLibris

EARL OF ENNISKILLEN

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_of_Enniskillen

Motto: deum cole regem serva

Irish Provenance

Fine half Calf Binding. Marbled Covers and Gilt Spine

RRR

One map

VIAGGIO DA ROMA A ANCONA

signed in the plate by

Filippo Conti incise No.16 pezzi

Very Good Condition

PRE TITLE AND INTRODUCTION

A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE ROADS OF ITALY

FOR THE USE OF

Gentlemen who travel with the Post,

with full Description of the Cities,

Towns, Villages, and Rivers, and an explination

of the Views for Some Milles on each Side of the Road

in Twenty-three Geographical Maps, with an exact account of the Posts,

of the price to be paid for the Posthorses,

and all the best Inns as well in the Towns as on the Roads,

and many other necessary and Profitable things.

LONDON 1775.

Rare & Precious Book

ITALIAN GUIDE LONDON 1775

Front&Backcover. Gilt Spine. Title

Half-Calf with Marbled Papers

8°

RRR Of greatest Rarity

Very scarce not to be found in Book Auctions Sale Lists

For Filippo Conti see

SAUR AKL XXI

SAUR BBI 2 pag.694

....copper engraver...

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