Guida di Venezia e delle Isole Circonvicine

Venezia: Stabilimento Nazionale di Carlo Bianchi, 1860. Very Good. Venezia: Stabilimento Nazionale di Carlo Bianchi, n.d., ca. 1860s. Later Edition. Octavo (21cm.); contemporary green morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine in six compartments, marbled endpapers; viii,321pp.; illus. Leather a bit rubbed and dried along extremities, spine darkened, foxing to textblock, remnants of bookseller ticket to front free endpaper and faint late 19th-century ownership rubberstamp to two early leaves, else a Very Good, clean and sound copy.

Useful and thoughtfully organized guide to Venice co-authored by one of the leading Italian historians of Gothic architecture Pietro Selvatico (1803-1880). Each landmark is divided into a table providing notable details and historical tidbits.