Guida d'Italia Italian Guide 1775

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

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EARL OF ENNISKILLEN

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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...

cf. 

British Library Maps 118.b.13.: Anon.

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cf. 

pag.258 , Primary Sources No.1

cf. 

pag.198 , Italian Road Atlases III: A Brief Account of the Roads of Italy , 1775

https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/pdf/ndn452b2286109.pdf

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