Travel, Photographs, Maps and Natural History

Travel, Photographs, Maps and Natural History

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Giovanni Battista Pacichelli | Il regno di Napoli in prospettiva, Naples, 1703, 3 volumes, calf

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Giovanni Battista Pacichelli

Il regno di Napoli in prospettiva diviso in dodeci provincie. Naples: Michele Luigi Muzio and Domenico Antonio Parrini, 1703


3 volumes, 4to (222 x 163mm.), half-titles, engraved frontispiece, folding engraved map of southern Italy, woodcut initials and headpieces, volume 1: 76 engraved plates and maps (5 folding), with final blank at end of volume 1; volume 2: 61 engraved plates and maps (4 folding); volume 3: 36 engraved plates and maps (4 folding); contemporary calf, spines gilt in compartments, y4 in volume 3 with repaired lower corner, small wormhole in volume 3, bindings slightly rubbed and stained


FIRST EDITION of Abbot Pacichelli's comprehensive survey of the territories of the kingdom of Naples, with numerous town views and maps.


PROVENANCE:

C.E. Rappaport, Rome, bookseller's label

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