[Italy] Mapei, Camillo. Italy, Classical, Historical, and Picturesque, Illustrated in a Series of Views from Drawings by Stanfield, R.A. Roberts, R.A. Harding, Prout, Leitch, Brockedon, Barnard &c. With Descriptions of the Scenes. Blackie & Son, London, [1847]Folio. (7) cviii 161pp., full green calf, raised bands, stamped gilt cover panels, gilt decorative spine panels, gilt borders on covers, inner covers gilt,. a. e. g., text illustrated with 60 steel-engraved plates by England's finest landscape artists; tissue guards, explanatory text. Mapei, Camillo: Italy, Classical, Historical and Picturesque. Illustrated in a Series of Views by Stanfield, R.A., Roberts, R.A., Harding, Prout, Leitch, Brockedon, Barnard, &c, &c; With Descriptions of the Scenes, provenance: From the Library of Betty Washington Whiting direct descendant of Martha Washington. Ink owner's name at upper end leaf 'Caro B. Turnbull' - Caroline Swanwick Butler Turnbull (1834-1876) daughter of Francis Parke Lewis (granddaughter of Martha Washington) and Edward George Washington Butler Sr. of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

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