[ART & ILLUSTRATION]. Nuova Raccolta di Scene Popolari e Costumi di Napoli, Disegnati esattamente dal vero. Stampati e Pubblicati nella Litografia di Signori Cuciniello e Bianchi

Folio.  400 x 280 mm., [15 ½ x 11 inches].  Printed title on upper board, 24 full page lithographic plates.  Bound in original leather back boards, printed title on upper board; some rubbing to the paper on the boards and edges, sine very lightly rubbed.  Bookplate on front pastedown reading “Bibliothèque Du Prince De Sayn Wittgenstein”.  Sound and attractive copy.

Rare first edition of Cuciniello e Bianchi’s lithographs representing the costumes and customs of the people of Naples.  This suite of plates is beautifully rendered in clear and clean black lithographs printed on high quality paper, almost with any foxing or discoloration to the plates.  Cucciniello e Bianchi published another edition of plates on Naples ca. 1850. 

This work is not cited in Lipperheide, Colas, the Berlin Catalogue or any other bibliography of costume books consulted.  It is not cited in NUC or OCLC and only the 1850 edition is listed, citing one copy at Columbia University.