Malta : the colour and life of Malta from original paintings
1925, 1st edition. Valletta, Malta : Criten's. Very good copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges nicked and dust-dulled as with age. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved. Item #391584
Date is suggested. Physical description: 1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 33 cm. Notes: Foreword by H.C.C. Contents: On the road to Città Vecchia during orange picking season -- Gozo boats alongside quay in Grand Harbour -- Bird market - St. John's Square, Valletta -- Street market - Floriana -- The milkman -- Schooners from Sicily in Grand Harbour -- Mending nets - Migiarro, Gozo -- The guitar player -- The chicken hawker -- The village beau -- Wied iz-Zurriek -- Maltese carts out on a festa -- Gozo boat in full sail -- Procession passing St. John's Co-Cathedral -- A corner in St. John's Co-Cathedral - the Chapel of Aragon -- Ghar-id-Dud promenade - a popular summer resort -- Fort St. Angelo, a centre of much fighting during the Great Siege of 1565 -- Out of the goats -- Section of Good Friday procession -- Early Easter Sunday morning the statue of Christ arisen is carried in triumph through the streets to the sound of fifes and drums -- Carnival scene on the Palace Square -- Rocks and boulders near Ghain Tuffieha -- Maltese lady wearing the national headdress, the faldetta -- Country lane -- A street corner in Gozo -- Typical landscape -- Wayside orange seller -- Strada Mezzodì - the "West End" of Valletta -- Strada San Patrizio - the "East End" of Valletta -- Saint Paul's Islands, entrance of St. Paul's Bay, the scene of the shipwreck of the Apostle -- Popular bathing beach at Ghain-Tuffieha -- In the Boschetto Valley. A Maltese circe -- Farmyard scene -- Marsamuscetto Harbour from Sa Maison -- Maddalena Valley -- Hagiar Kim (neolithc temple) -- Fountain Sant' Antonio Gardens -- View of Grand Harbour from Floriana -- Country girl hawking chickens -- "The sweetest of the lot". Subjects: Dingli, Edward Caruana 1876-1950; Painting, Maltese 20th century; Malta ; In art; Malta ; Pictorial works.
Price: €595.00