Luigi Castiglioni's Viaggio : Travels in the United States of North America 1985-87
1983, Stated First Edition. Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #231428
ISBN: 0815622643
Physical description: xli,487p(some plates) : ill, maps ; 24cm. Notes: Translation of two works originally published together: Viaggio negli Stati Uniti dell'America settentrionale fatto negli anni 1785, 1786 e 1787, and Transunto delle osservazioni sui vegetabili dell'America settentrionale. 1790. With: Natural history commentary and Luigi Castiglioni's 'Botanical observations'/ translated by Antonio Pace and edited by Joseph and Nesta Ewan. Translated from the Italian. Subject: Botanical exploration - Flora - USA - History. Castiglioni, Luigi - Biography. United States / Canada - Description and travel - Early works to 1800. Botany. Travel. Other names: Pace, Antonio (1914-2004). Ewan, Joseph (Joseph Andorfer) (1909-99). Ewan, Ada Nesta Dunn (1908-2000). Genre: Illustrated. Autobiography. Bibliography.
Price: €18.00