Etruscan Bologna: A Study.

BURTON, [Sir] Richard Francis (1821-1890).

London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1876. [Italian Travel and Archaeology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.xii, 275. Illustrated with folding frontispiece lithograph showing a Synoptical Table of the Paleo-Ethnological Remains of Central Italy. Also with occasional in-text wood engravings. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, decorative friezes in black relief to top and bottom of boards, and a gilt temple motif to upper. Toned throughout. Upper hinge starting, but holding quite firm. Spine quite heavily toned, with some fraying to head and tail, and a few light marks and bumps to boards. Very good. An overview of recent discoveries in the north-eastern regions of ancient Etruria, not mentioned in contemporary editions of Murray's Guide or Baedeker. Item #58295

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