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Goldicutt, John

(1793 - 1842)

Antiquites of Sicily, 1819

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€ 6.000 - 7.000

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Information

London, Murray, 1819.
Folio, frontispiece engraved on copper with engraved title, view of Catania below, pp. (16) and 41 plates engraved on copper by Bartolomeo Pinelii, based on the author's drawing, which offer a beautiful and romantic vision of Sicily at the time: Palermo and its seafront, the ancient theater of Segeste, the castle of Aci, Messina and its port and other views of Sicilian localities with the vestiges of their ancient civilizations. Slight marginal foxings. Contemporary binding mz. leather with corners, gusset, title and gold decorations on the spine.

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