Guerra..Oriente Album Illustrato,h'col.pls,1860

Crimean War.- Guerra d'Oriente Album Illustrato,hand-coloured lithographed pictorial title, 48 hand-coloured lithographed or chromolithographed plates (23 portraits, 25 battle scenes), heightened with gum arabic, tissue guards, and 2 hand-coloured maps, title a little soiled, first leaf of text with tear to inner margin (repaired without loss), one or two plates slightly damaged where tissue guard was previously stuck to plate, another slightly soiled and frayed at fore-edge, lightly foxed mostly affecting text or margins of plates, contemporary morocco-backed blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt, a little rubbed, spine repaired, 4to, Florence, [1860].