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[BARBIERI, Carlo.] Direzione pe' viaggiatori in Italia. Colla notizia di tutte le poste e loro prezzi. Bologna: Giovanni Battista Sassi, 1771.
8° (173 x 123mm). Engraved frontispiece, parallel titles and text in French and Italian, explanatory vignettes to titles, 24 folding engraved maps. (Loss to map no. 6 caused by ca. 5 holes, marginal holes in map no. 14, light spotting throughout.) Contemporary vellum wallet binding (soiled, lacking most of the tie).
FIRST EDITION, of the standard 18th-century road atlas of Italy, reprinted 159 times. The atlas includes symbols for staging posts, castles and towns, and gives prices in the local currency of each state.
8° (173 x 123mm). Engraved frontispiece, parallel titles and text in French and Italian, explanatory vignettes to titles, 24 folding engraved maps. (Loss to map no. 6 caused by ca. 5 holes, marginal holes in map no. 14, light spotting throughout.) Contemporary vellum wallet binding (soiled, lacking most of the tie).
FIRST EDITION, of the standard 18th-century road atlas of Italy, reprinted 159 times. The atlas includes symbols for staging posts, castles and towns, and gives prices in the local currency of each state.