Torino [Turin, Italy]: Tipografia Scolastica di Sebastiano Franco E Figli, (1860-1867).
Price: $500.00
Hardcover. First edition. Three volumes. Quartos. Text in Italian. Bound in contemporary quarter cloth and stiff paste-paper boards with plain paper wrappers, the text pages are untrimmed. All three volumes are illustrated with numerous plates: lithographic and photographic portraits; and six folded color-tinted lithographic plates of the famous battles. No title page is present in volume 3 (as issued?). Some light dampstaining to the preliminary pages and plates in volume one, scattered foxing, overall a good set. A scarce set published during the Second Italian War of Independence. With many fine portraits, and six folded color-tinted lithographic plates designed and printed by Giordana e Salussolia in Turin between 1859 and 1862: “Arrivo dei Volontari in Piemonte” (1859); “Assassinio della Famiglia Cignoli” (1862); “Battaglia di Montebello” (1860); “Battaglia di Palestro” (1862); “Battaglia di Magenta” (1860); “Battaglia de S. Martino” (1860). *OCLC* locates only six copies.
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