Descrizione della Palestina.
Stock Code 93391
Milan, 1831
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First separate edition, revised and significantly expanded; originally published as part of Ferrario's immense Il Costume Antico e Moderno, issued simultaneously in French and Italian in 143 parts from 1816 to 1834, forming a total of seventeen volumes. In the preface Ferrario claims to have corrected the errors of the first edition from various accounts, including those of Mayer and Chateaubriand.
Royal 8vo (26.5 × 17.5 cm); contemporary Italian diced morocco, flat spine richly gilt in compartments, covers elaborately blind-stamped with floral spandrels and similar elliptical centrepieces within rolled floral borders gilt, marbled endpapers. Engraved folding area map & 32 aquatints by Bramati, Angeli and others of which 31 hand-coloured.
Royal 8vo (26.5 × 17.5 cm); contemporary Italian diced morocco, flat spine richly gilt in compartments, covers elaborately blind-stamped with floral spandrels and similar elliptical centrepieces within rolled floral borders gilt, marbled endpapers. Engraved folding area map & 32 aquatints by Bramati, Angeli and others of which 31 hand-coloured.
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