3 voll. in large 4to; 286x200 mm; Marbled boards binding with green floreal motifs. Leaves 4 nn, pp. 367, 500, 107, 594, 516, 158, 2, with 4 plates of medals, 16 lithographic views of Venice and its monuments, 1 map of Arsenale and 2 large topographical lithography folded plates, map of Venice and Venice’s lagoon. Totally of 23 plates. Nice uncut specimen with wide margins.
First illustrated edition. The most important scientific work on Venice of the nineteenth century accompanied by a large iconographic apparatus of views, a beautiful map of Venice and a large map of the territory. Beautiful and authoritative collection of essays on Venice and its lagoons, published in a limited and non-venal edition, offered as a tribute to the participants in the IX Congress of Italian Scientists. Altogether 23 authors collaborated in the work, the best specialists for each subject, thus providing a vast panorama of the civil, economic, cultural, scientific and institutional life of Venice on the eve of the uprisings of 1848-49, which demonstrates the intense vitality of Venice in the Risorgimento period.