New Guide of Rome, Naples and Their Environs.

Finely bound edition of this revised version of Giuseppe Vasi's original work, a 19th-century travel guidebook of the monuments and works of art of Rome for tourists visiting Italy. Small octavo, bound in full vellum with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments, morocco spine labels, illustrated with 25 engravings of the principal monuments and a map of Rome. Carefully revised and enlarged with an account of the latest antiquarian researches by archaeologist Antonio Nibby. In very good condition with toning and soiling to the panels. Ownership inscription to the front free endpaper and annotations throughout. New Guide of Rome, Naples and Their Environs, translated from the Italian works of Vasi and Nibby, is an English-language travel guide derived from the influential Italian guidebooks of Mariano Vasi, which themselves expanded upon the earlier guide to Rome produced by his father, the engraver and antiquarian Giuseppe Vasi. Designed for nineteenth-century travelers undertaking the Grand Tour, the guide provides detailed descriptions of the principal monuments, churches, antiquities, and artistic treasures of Rome and Naples, along with practical information about routes, sites, and historical context.…