BARBIERI, Carlo]. Direzione pe' Viaggiatori in Italia. Bologna: Giovanni Battista Sassi, 1771. 8° (184 x 120mm.). Parallel titles and text in French and Italian. Engraved frontispiece, explanatory vignettes on titles and 24 folding route maps. (Some browning.) Contemporary floral-paper boards (rebacked), modern cloth box. Provenance : Miss Davies (inscription 'Sigra. Inglesina Davies'); Franklin H. Kissner (sale Christie's 4 October 1990 lot 536 #1600). FIRST EDITION of the standard 18th-century road atlas of Italy. It is dedicated to Marquis Giuseppe Zagnoni, includes symbols for staging posts, castles and towns, gives prices in the local currency of each state and is the first of 159 editions
BARBIERI, Carlo]. Direzione pe' Viaggiatori in Italia. Bologna: Giovanni Battista Sassi, 1771. 8° (184 x 120mm.). Parallel titles and text in French and Italian. Engraved frontispiece, explanatory vignettes on titles and 24 folding route maps. (Some browning.) Contemporary floral-paper boards (rebacked), modern cloth box. Provenance : Miss Davies (inscription 'Sigra. Inglesina Davies'); Franklin H. Kissner (sale Christie's 4 October 1990 lot 536 #1600). FIRST EDITION of the standard 18th-century road atlas of Italy. It is dedicated to Marquis Giuseppe Zagnoni, includes symbols for staging posts, castles and towns, gives prices in the local currency of each state and is the first of 159 editions
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