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PARRINO, Antonio. Nuova guida de' Forastieri per osservare, e godere le curiosità più vaghe... della Real Fedelissima Gran Napoli. Naples: Domenico-Antonio Parrino, 1714. 12° (149 x 80mm.). Etched frontispiece, 33 etched plates (2 folding). Some old dampstaining, worming to outer margin at C8-F5, the twelfth plate with small rust-hole, repair to paper fault in K12, lower margin of V2 torn away with loss to a few words.) Contemporary vellum. Provenance: Samuel Keay (signatures); Jacob Henry Preston (bookplate). -- Lorenzo PIGNORIA (1571-1631). Le origini di Padova. Padua: Pietro Paolo Tozzi, 1625. 4° (221 x 160mm.). Engraved title, 20 woodcut illustrations, 2 folding woodcut plates. (Some browning, repair to first folding plate.) 18th-century vellum-backed boards. FIRST EDITION. -- [Luigi CHIZZOLA]. Le Pitture & Sculpture di Brescia. Brescia: Giambattista Bossini, 1760. 8° (195 x 130mm.). Etched frontispiece, title with etched vignette, 2 etched historiated initials, 5 etched illustrations. (Some light dampstaining.) Contemporary limp boards (stitching shaken). Provenance: unidentified ownership stamp (possibly that of a Cardinal). FIRST EDITION. -- With three others (Alessandro da MORRONA. Pregi di Pisa compendiati. Pisa: Ranieri Prosperi, 1816. 8°. -- Andrea di JORIA. Indicazione del più rimarcabile in Napoli e contorni. Naples: Simoniana, 1819. 8°. -- Francesco ANGELONI. Historia di Terni. Rome: Andrea Fei, 1646. 4°). (6)