£100 - £150
Italy. Postal history: Giuseppe Pezze after Giovanni Brenna & C. Pinchetti, Carta Geografica e postale del Regno Lombardo-Veneto [...], Milano: Gio. Cogliati, et al, 1847, engraving over 40 paper sheets, hand-coloured delineation, laid on linen, original marbled wrapper, 88 x 134cm; an Italian map of Turkey and the Balkans, inset of Constantinople [i.e. Istanbul], s.l., s.n., n.d. [early-mid 19th c], engraving over 20 paper sheets, hand-coloured delineation, original marbled wrapper, 80 x 80cm; Vallardi (Pierre & Joseph, editors), Carte générale & routière d'Italie, Milan, 1830, engraving over 20 paper sheets, hand-coloured delineation, laid on linen, original marble sleeve, 70.5 x 54.5cm;[&] Il nostro confine orientale e le terre irredente, c. 1930, chromolithograph over 12 sheets of paper, laid on linen, 78 x 108cm, (4)
Condition evidenced by images. The mounting frail in places, and in case of the second and third maps split and detached in places. The exteriors with later manuscript labels.
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