Itinerario dell'Isola di Sardegna. Volume I - Traduzione, prefazione e annotazioni di Pasquale Marica
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Traduzione, prefazione e annotazioni di Pasquale Marica
Author: Alberto Della Marmora
Publisher: Tipografia G. Maffei
Place of printing: Caserta
Year of publication: 1917
Product Condition:
Specimen in good condition. First volume only. Half leather binding with gilt titles and friezes on the back with four nerves and marbled plates; stripping on the faded back, on the headphones and on the hinges. Peeling at the edges, at the corners and at the rear plate. Burnished cuts with dust spots. Well preserved papers, with slight bluing at the edges and rare pale blooms. Text in Italian language.
Pages: LXXXVII, (1), 247, (1)
Format: In sixteenth
Dimensions (cm):
Height: 24
Width: 16
Description
The substantial introduction is dedicated to reconstructing the life and work of Alberto Della Marmora, military, Senator of the Savoy kingdom and amateur naturalist, who lived for a long time in Sardinia and who published two important works dedicated to the island in French: the "Voyage en Sardaigne '", appeared in the first edition in 1826 and then later in 1840 with the addition of a second part, an extraordinary paleontological and geological, physical and political description of Sardinia, with accurate research on its natural productions and its antiquities, and the '"Itinéraire de l'île de Sardaigne", released in Turin in 1860, the result of his personal travel experiences that he makes available to travelers who want to visit a land that is still partly wild and sometimes dangerous. describing all its attractions. In this first volume, 4 chapters appear: Cagliari; Surroundings of Cagliari; Excursions from Cagliari to SW and W, that is to Sulcis and back from Decimo; Excursion to the province of Lanusei, the Gennargentu and Monte Arci.
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