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182130090London: For Rodwell and Martin 1821. First Edition. With provenance of John Sanderson Lordship Hall Tottenham. With a fine engraved map and 13 plates engraved by Charles Heath from drawings by the author. 4to in contemporary three-quarter calf over green moire cloth-covered boards the spine with wide gilt decorated raised bands and a black morocco label gilt ruled and lettered. xi 1 449 pp. A handsome copy the text is especially clean and fresh with the commonly seen toning or spotting to the plates due to the ink used in printing with some offsetting to the adjoining pages the binding solid and attractive with some light evidence of age or use. FIRST EDITION AND A VERY HANDSOME COPY OF CRAVEN'S BEST WORK beautifully embellished with fine engraved plates from his own sketches. The author traveled extensively in Italy and was especially familiar with Naples and Milan. He first went to Naples as a Chamberlain to Caroline Princess of Wales but later resided permanently in Italy near Salerno where he entertained esteemed acquaintances such as William Gell and Lady Blessington. He was a member of the Society of Dilettanti and is buried at the English Cemetery in Naples. He is considered the last of the triumvirate of British literati scholars and gentlemen who resided in Italy for many years in the closest bonds of friendship the others being Sir William Drummond and Sir William Gell. For Rodwell and Martin hardcover
1846101866<p>Naples April 1846. 11 pp. Selfwrappers as issued. Some foxing throughout as usual in items from Naples but a really nice item.</p><p>Alphabetically arranged catalogue containing works published by the Stamperia dell'Iride with printed prices in the margins.</p>
1850AQ23584Naples: s.n. 1850. vi 2pp 72ff. The main body of the text with printed music to versos and libretti to rectos. Contemporary perhaps original purple cloth gilt titled to spine and upper board. Marbled endpapers. Marked with some remains of what is presumably candle wax to lower board slightly faded and rubbed small wormhole at the head of spine bumping to corners. A rare survival of a Neapolitan-printed psalmody/hymnal produced for the use of the English Protestant congregation at Naples 'revised by Daniel Holmes organist to the chapel'. Traditionally a room in the house of the Consul-General was provided for the English of Naples to worship but with the reduction in stature of the Consul during the early nineteenth-century pressure mounted for the construction of a permanent - and separate - home. Despite strong ties between the Bourbon monarchy and the English establishment disputes between the congregation and the government of Naples ensued. Newly built premises were vetoed and so instead the first separate and permanent Chapel which opened in 1841 consisted of a part of the Palazzo Calabritti paid for after successful appeal to Lord Palmerston by Her Majesty's foreign office. Rare; OCLC and COPAC locate only three copies all in the UK BL Glasgow and Oxford. . 8vo. [s.n.] hardcover
183173323title page followed by 120 leaves of plates one of which is folded with a 6 page handwritten index to the rear Published by Museo Reale Borbonico Napoli hardcover
188450037London En: William Clowes and Sons 1884. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Red cloth boards with gold-gilt type to front and spine 30 cm unpaginated with 404 illustrated objects from every branch of art and archeology. Marbled endpapers match marbled outer page edges. Very good copy. Previous owner's bookplate inside. William Clowes and Sons hardcover
