ORTOLANI, Giuseppe Emanuele (1758-1828). Biografia degli uom...
Hammer
€300
ORTOLANI, Giuseppe Emanuele (1758-1828). Biografia degli uomini illustri della Sicilia. Naples: Nicola Gervasi, 1817-1821.
First edition of the most extensive biographical collection devoted to the leading figures of Sicilian history and culture. The work brings together the lives of illustrious Sicilians - sovereigns, statesmen, ecclesiastics, men of letters, scientists, artists and military figures - each accompanied by an engraved portrait by Raffaello Morghen (1758-1833), Giuseppe Biondi (1778-1852) and other engravers of the period. Published in parts and without continuous pagination, the work contains a varying number of biographies from copy to copy, with up to 193 recorded in OPAC; the present copy comprises 176 lives, each accompanied by the corresponding engraved portrait.
4 volumes, 4to (250 × 190 mm). Engraved title-page to each volume and 176 engraved portraits, one accompanying each biography (foxing). Nineteenth-century half leather, gilt titles and decorations to spines, cloth boards (minor defects). (4)
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ORTOLANI, Giuseppe Emanuele (1758-1828). Biografia degli uomini illustri della Sicilia. Naples: Nicola Gervasi, 1817-1821.
First edition of the most extensive biographical collection devoted to the leading figures of Sicilian history and culture. The work brings together the lives of illustrious Sicilians - sovereigns, statesmen, ecclesiastics, men of letters, scientists, artists and military figures - each accompanied by an engraved portrait by Raffaello Morghen (1758-1833), Giuseppe Biondi (1778-1852) and other engravers of the period. Published in parts and without continuous pagination, the work contains a varying number of biographies from copy to copy, with up to 193 recorded in OPAC; the present copy comprises 176 lives, each accompanied by the corresponding engraved portrait.
4 volumes, 4to (250 × 190 mm). Engraved title-page to each volume and 176 engraved portraits, one accompanying each biography (foxing). Nineteenth-century half leather, gilt titles and decorations to spines, cloth boards (minor defects). (4)
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