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![Item #1055 Panorama di Napoli preso da S. Martino, dis]e]g[na]to dal vero da Ant[oni]o Senape...](/pictures/thumb/1055.jpg?v=1668546798)
Naples, ca. 1835. Panorama drawing in pencil, pen, and brown ink, on four sheets of paper, total measurement of 255 x 1480 mm., [10 x 58 ¼ inches] backed on linen and folded, in excellent condition. A striking example of a Grand Tour panorama of Naples that is nearly one..... More
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2004. 8vo. 230 x 150 mm., [9 x 6 inches]. xvi, 463 pp. Illustrated throughout by the author. Cream colored boards, orange spine; dust jacket. New fine copy. First edition. Yeadon, a writer for National Geographic, brought his narrative skills to the province of Basilicata in..... More
New York: Macmillian and Co., 1894. 8vo. 195 x 125 mm., [7 1/2 x 5 inches]. [10], 297 pp. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 20 half tone plates. Publisher's blue cloth, a few scrapes and nicks to the spine, otherwise sound and attractive copy. Engraved bookplate of Sarah Gilbert Wood..... More
N.p., (Pompei). N.d. (ca. 1950). Small 8vo. 165 x 120 mm., [6 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches]. Illustrated with 32 color postcards, linked together in accordian fashion and bound in boards, decorated with a view of ancient Pompei and Blessed Virgin Mary.High gloss tourists cards printed in color, each with..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2001. Small 8vo. 200 x 130 mm., [7 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches]. [x], 209 pp. Publisher's yellow boards, title on spine; dust jacket. First edition. An account of a travel to Sutri, an ancient Etruscan village, by an attorney escaping the high pressure of..... More
New York: A New Directions Book, 1981. 8vo. 210 x 140 mm., [8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches]. 32 leaves. Publisher's tan boards, blue cloth spine; mylar wrapper. Very good copy. First edition, printed in an edition 250 copies, this numbered "7", signed "ferlinghetti" in ink. Poems inspired by..... More
New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1921. Small 8 vo. 165 x 110 mm., [6 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches]. xvii, 385, plus 4 pp. ads. Illustrated with 120 half tone images and 16 maps. Original green cloth, decorated in red on upper board;, scuffed with some..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1957. 8vo. 210 x 140 mm., [8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches]. x, 374 pp. Illustrated throughout with color and black and white plates and maps of Rome on the endpapers. Original blue cloth, dust jacket; cloth very lightly faded with time and dust..... More
New York: Broadway Books, 2002. 8vo. 210 x 140 mm., [8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches]. [10], 242, [3] pp. Original buff paper boards with red cloth spine, dust jacket. Price sticker on rear wrapper of dust jacket, otherwise a very good copy. First American edition, originally published in Italian..... More
Paris: Hachette, 1956. Thick 12mo. 155 x 100 mm., [6 1/4 x 4 inches]. civ, 723 pp. Illustrated with 8 large folding maps in the text and 95 city maps and a map of country bound at the end of the volume. Original blue cloth in very good condition, dust..... More
New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1966. 8vo. 210 x 135 mm., [8 x 5 1/4 inches]. 416 pp. Illustrated with 24 half-tone plates. Original green cloth, dust jacket; some minor wear to the corners and edges of the dust jacket, cloth binding in very good condition. First edition of..... More
New York: North Point Press, 2003. 8vo. 210 x 140 mm., [8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches]. xvii, 314 pp. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket. Very nice copy.First edition. Personal tour of Italy, providing an informed insight into the difficulties experienced by everyday Italians at the hands of their government and..... More
Boston: Dana Estes and Company, 1893, 8vo. 210 x 140 mm., [8 ¼ x 5 ½ inches]. vi, 380 pp. Illustrated with 20 half-tone plates. Original decorated white cloth; red cloth dust jacket with title gilt on spine. A near fine copy in a dust jacket with some minor wear..... More
Cernobbio, Lake Como, Villa d'Este, 1960. 8vo. 210 x 155 mm., [8 1/4 x 6 inches]. 84, 1 pp. 12 tupped-in color plate reproductions. Original cloth binding, dust jacket; boards with residue of paper wrapper, dust jacket showing some discoloration at edges. With faults a good copy. Well-illustrated promotional guide..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, A Donald Hutter Book, 1988. 8vo. 230 x 150 mm., [9 x 6 inches]. xii, 388 pp. Illustrated throughout with maps, 74 photographs, and half tone illustrations. Publisher's white boards, brown cloth spine, dust jacket. Very good copy. First edition. Hofmann was the NY..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1959. Photographs by Joseph Vadala. 8vo. 225 x 150 mm., [9 x 6 inches]. viii, 196 pp. Illustrated throughout with black and white images by NBC cinemographer Joseph Vadala. Publisher's black cloth, dust jacket; jacket with some rubbing to edges and head and tail..... More
Boston: Hale, Suchman & Flint, ca. 1950. 8vo. 205 x 160 mm., [8 x 6 1/2 inches]. 143 pp. Illustrated throughout with half tone illustrations. Publisher's blue cloth, dust jacket; the cloth has some minor soiling at the top edge of the books and some discoloration along the bottom edge..... More
Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1891. 8vo. 200 x 140 mm., [8 x 5 1/2 inches]. [10], 354 pp. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 19 photogravure illustrations. Publisher's white decorated cloth with gilt and blue designs on upper board and spine, read cloth dust wrapper with title in gilt on spine. ..... More
Boston: Houghton, Miffllin and Company, at the Riverside Press, 1911. 8vo. 210 x 145 mm., [8 ¼ x 5 ¾ inches]. xxiv, 603 pp. Illustrated with a folding frontispiece and a folding map, and 58 photo reproductions printed on glossy paper in the text. Publisher’s decorated green cloth and spine;..... More
N. p., (J. T. Moss). 1909. Large 8vo. 235 x 175 mm., [9 1/4 x 7 inches]. 400 pp. Illustrated with reproductions of photographs taken especially for this volume. Original cloth, with medallion of the Red Cross in center of the upper board and the title in gilt surrounding the..... More
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1894. Large 8vo. 240 x 170 mm., [9 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches]. xxix, [1], 329 pp. Illustrated with one hundred illustrations throughout the text. Bound in original red paper boards, white linen cloth spine, red cloth wrapper; tail of spine with some minor transfer..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1932. 8vo. 225 x 150 mm., [9 x 5 3/4 inches]. 200 pp. Illustrated with 20 collotype reproductions. Original black cloth; stamped in gilt, top edge stained black. Original cream dust jacket, plain wrappers. Bookseller's ticket of Paul Elder & Co., San Francesco to rear..... More
Boston: Houghton, Miffllin and Company, at the Riverside Press, 1884. 8vo. 175 x 125 mm., [7 x 4 3/4 inches]. 300 pp., plus 8 pp. of ads for H/M travel books. Original blue publisher's cloth. Very good copy.First edition thus, two of the chapters appeared in The Atlantic in 1881..... More
London: Methuen & Co., Ltd., [1918]. With Sixteen Illustrations in Colour by William Pascoe and Eight others Illustrations. 8vo. 225 x 145 mm., [9 x 5 1/2 inches]. [xii], 274 pp., plus31 pp. ads for Methuen publications, dated February 1931. Bound in Original blue cloth, title in gilt set within..... More
