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Two-volume set from Franco Maria Ricci’s Guide impossibili, AA.VV., Fuegia o Terra del Fuoco e altri territori circonvicini della Magellania and Ingrermanlandia, San Pietroburgo, Zarskoje Selo, published in 1986 and 1992 as numbered limited editions of 5,000 copies each, with original slipcase and folded maps or plates, in Italian and in excellent, like-new condition.
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Lotto consisting of two volumes from the renowned series “Guide impossibili” by Franco Maria Ricci, curated by Gianni Guadalupi, a refined editorial project dedicated to remote, unusual, or almost legendary places, reconstructed through testimonies of travelers, explorers, and writers.
Both volumes belong to the first edition limited to 5,000 numbered copies and come complete with their original editorial cases.
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1. FUEGIA OR TERRA DEL FUEGO AND OTHER TERRITORIES ENCIRCLING MAGELLANIA
Description
A precious volume belonging to the famous series "Guide impossibili" published by Franco Maria Ricci and curated by Gianni Guadalupi.
Original 1986 edition, in the first limited edition of 5,000 copies. The offered copy is no. 1251.
The volume presents the refined editorial style characteristic of Franco Maria Ricci’s Guide impossibili, a series that combines travel literature, historical testimonies, and a rich iconographic apparatus dedicated to remote territories and to the ways in which they were told and represented by explorers of the past.
The volume is printed on hand-made paper from Cartiere Miliani di Fabriano with typography in Bodoni type.
Subject of the Volume
Fuegia leads the reader to the southernmost limit of the American continent, in Tierra del Fuego and the lands surrounding Magellania, through the testimonies of explorers and travelers who reached one of the most remote and inhospitable regions on the planet.
Among the texts, the one by Charles Darwin stands out, who visited Tierra del Fuego during the famous Beagle voyage. Alongside him, the testimonies of Giacomo Bove, Mario Appelius, and Armando Braun Menéndez reconstruct different moments of exploration and the transformation of this territory.
The volume narrates the encounter with the Fuegian indigenous peoples, navigation among straits, channels, and archipelagos, the harsh weather conditions, and the subsequent phases of European colonization. Alongside the dimension of exploration run the events linked to the gold rush, sheep farming, and land occupation, which radically changed the landscape and the lives of the original peoples.
From this emerges the portrait of an extreme land, suspended between geographic reality and myth: mountains, glaciers, forests, and stormy seas that for centuries fed European imagination with the appeal of the last frontier of the known world.
The historical iconographic apparatus characteristic of the Guide impossibili makes the volume particularly interesting for FMR collectors and enthusiasts of geographic explorations, Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, the history of navigation, ethnography, and travel literature.
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Franco Maria Ricci, Milan
Series: Guide impossibili
Full title: Fuegia or Tierra del Fuego and other territories encircling Magellania
Edited by: Gianni Guadalupi
Texts by: Charles Darwin, Giacomo Bove, Mario Appelius, Armando Braun Menéndez
Year: 1986
Pages: 324
Print run: first limited edition of 5,000 copies numbered
Copy number: 1251
ISBN: 88-216-0552-3
Editorial code FMR: CL24-0552-0
Complete with original editorial case
Conditions
Volume in excellent condition.
Clean and well-preserved interiors.
Original editorial case present and intact.
The photographs are an integral part of the description and show the actual condition of the volume and the case.
_________________
"Tierra del Fuego, its indigenous people most like animals than men, the gold rush, the sheep invasion, and the inevitable triumph of the White Man."
____
"Until the 1840s, the southernmost extremity of the South American continent seemed doomed to abandonment. The frequent shipwrecks that occurred on the promontories and reefs of the labyrinth of islands, sailors’ tales of the tremendous storms at Cape Horn, the icy rains, the vast deserts inland, the snows and glaciers of the coastal mountains had given the place a terrible reputation. Ownership of the territory was disputed by Chile and Argentina during the 19th century. The border controversy led to a better understanding of the region, especially the inland. For the Argentine government, the lieutenant of the Royal Italian Navy Giacomo Bove captained an important expedition in 1881; from his report the most interesting passages have been extracted."
_________________________________________
2. GOVERNORATE OF INGERMANLANDIA
Description
Volume of the famous series "Guide impossibili" published by Franco Maria Ricci.
Full title: "Ingrermanlandia, or Saint Petersburg, Tsarskoye Selo, Gatchina, Oranienbaum and other places of delight of the Tsars of all Russia".
Original edition in the first numbered printing, part of the limited run of 5,000 copies.
The volume is printed on hand-made paper from Cartiere Miliani di Fabriano with typography in Bodoni, following the refined editorial concept of Franco Maria Ricci.
Subject of the volume
Dedicated to historic Ingrian Russia and the birth of the great imperial capital, the volume guides the reader through Saint Petersburg and the magnificent residences of the Tsars: Tsarskoye Selo, Gatchina, Oranienbaum, and other dwellings that surrounded the imperial court. Through travel memories, historical chronicles, testimonies of diplomats, artists, and European travelers, the splendor of Tsarist Russia, court life, and the evolution of one of Europe’s most fascinating capitals are reconstructed.
As in all volumes of the Guide impossibili series, the narrative is enriched by a rich iconographic apparatus consisting of engravings, historical maps, views, and period illustrations, guiding the reader on a journey through art, architecture, history, and the culture of imperial Russia.
Bibliographic details
• Publisher: Franco Maria Ricci, Milan
• Series: Guide impossibili
• Year of publication: 1992
• Print run: 5000 numbered copies
• Copy number: 3268
• ISBN: 88-216-0565-5
• FMR Code: GUI115
• Complete with original editorial case
Conditions
Volume in excellent condition.
Clean and well-preserved interiors.
Original case present and in excellent condition.
_________________
"The imperial splendor of Tsarist Saint Petersburg, boreal Palmira with summers without darkness and winters without light."
_____
"Daughter of perhaps the reckless whim of a martial despot, the past (and probably future) Saint Petersburg preserves in the rigid radial lattice of its streets and canals an unmistakably military air. It is a city on alert. Along the endless avenues of perfect alignment, the masses of palaces seem to be regiments assembled for a parade, under the eyes of bronze emperors standing in their saddles in every square, while on the pediments the horses of the chariots of bellicose gods descended from the squalls to witness the splendor of their earthly disciples. Only with the thaw does a jolt of vital disorder revive the ghostly city, when the crust of the Neva creaks, oozes, cracks, and crashes; and against the banks and piers of the bridges the ice rises like dead skin, the greenish slabs hang obliquely in sudden crevasses as if missing beneath someone’s feet, and from those black manholes a damp, dense breath escapes, the sigh of a colossal wine cellar flooded."
Lotto consisting of two volumes from the renowned series “Guide impossibili” by Franco Maria Ricci, curated by Gianni Guadalupi, a refined editorial project dedicated to remote, unusual, or almost legendary places, reconstructed through testimonies of travelers, explorers, and writers.
Both volumes belong to the first edition limited to 5,000 numbered copies and come complete with their original editorial cases.
_______________________________________________
1. FUEGIA OR TERRA DEL FUEGO AND OTHER TERRITORIES ENCIRCLING MAGELLANIA
Description
A precious volume belonging to the famous series "Guide impossibili" published by Franco Maria Ricci and curated by Gianni Guadalupi.
Original 1986 edition, in the first limited edition of 5,000 copies. The offered copy is no. 1251.
The volume presents the refined editorial style characteristic of Franco Maria Ricci’s Guide impossibili, a series that combines travel literature, historical testimonies, and a rich iconographic apparatus dedicated to remote territories and to the ways in which they were told and represented by explorers of the past.
The volume is printed on hand-made paper from Cartiere Miliani di Fabriano with typography in Bodoni type.
Subject of the Volume
Fuegia leads the reader to the southernmost limit of the American continent, in Tierra del Fuego and the lands surrounding Magellania, through the testimonies of explorers and travelers who reached one of the most remote and inhospitable regions on the planet.
Among the texts, the one by Charles Darwin stands out, who visited Tierra del Fuego during the famous Beagle voyage. Alongside him, the testimonies of Giacomo Bove, Mario Appelius, and Armando Braun Menéndez reconstruct different moments of exploration and the transformation of this territory.
The volume narrates the encounter with the Fuegian indigenous peoples, navigation among straits, channels, and archipelagos, the harsh weather conditions, and the subsequent phases of European colonization. Alongside the dimension of exploration run the events linked to the gold rush, sheep farming, and land occupation, which radically changed the landscape and the lives of the original peoples.
From this emerges the portrait of an extreme land, suspended between geographic reality and myth: mountains, glaciers, forests, and stormy seas that for centuries fed European imagination with the appeal of the last frontier of the known world.
The historical iconographic apparatus characteristic of the Guide impossibili makes the volume particularly interesting for FMR collectors and enthusiasts of geographic explorations, Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, the history of navigation, ethnography, and travel literature.
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Franco Maria Ricci, Milan
Series: Guide impossibili
Full title: Fuegia or Tierra del Fuego and other territories encircling Magellania
Edited by: Gianni Guadalupi
Texts by: Charles Darwin, Giacomo Bove, Mario Appelius, Armando Braun Menéndez
Year: 1986
Pages: 324
Print run: first limited edition of 5,000 copies numbered
Copy number: 1251
ISBN: 88-216-0552-3
Editorial code FMR: CL24-0552-0
Complete with original editorial case
Conditions
Volume in excellent condition.
Clean and well-preserved interiors.
Original editorial case present and intact.
The photographs are an integral part of the description and show the actual condition of the volume and the case.
_________________
"Tierra del Fuego, its indigenous people most like animals than men, the gold rush, the sheep invasion, and the inevitable triumph of the White Man."
____
"Until the 1840s, the southernmost extremity of the South American continent seemed doomed to abandonment. The frequent shipwrecks that occurred on the promontories and reefs of the labyrinth of islands, sailors’ tales of the tremendous storms at Cape Horn, the icy rains, the vast deserts inland, the snows and glaciers of the coastal mountains had given the place a terrible reputation. Ownership of the territory was disputed by Chile and Argentina during the 19th century. The border controversy led to a better understanding of the region, especially the inland. For the Argentine government, the lieutenant of the Royal Italian Navy Giacomo Bove captained an important expedition in 1881; from his report the most interesting passages have been extracted."
_________________________________________
2. GOVERNORATE OF INGERMANLANDIA
Description
Volume of the famous series "Guide impossibili" published by Franco Maria Ricci.
Full title: "Ingrermanlandia, or Saint Petersburg, Tsarskoye Selo, Gatchina, Oranienbaum and other places of delight of the Tsars of all Russia".
Original edition in the first numbered printing, part of the limited run of 5,000 copies.
The volume is printed on hand-made paper from Cartiere Miliani di Fabriano with typography in Bodoni, following the refined editorial concept of Franco Maria Ricci.
Subject of the volume
Dedicated to historic Ingrian Russia and the birth of the great imperial capital, the volume guides the reader through Saint Petersburg and the magnificent residences of the Tsars: Tsarskoye Selo, Gatchina, Oranienbaum, and other dwellings that surrounded the imperial court. Through travel memories, historical chronicles, testimonies of diplomats, artists, and European travelers, the splendor of Tsarist Russia, court life, and the evolution of one of Europe’s most fascinating capitals are reconstructed.
As in all volumes of the Guide impossibili series, the narrative is enriched by a rich iconographic apparatus consisting of engravings, historical maps, views, and period illustrations, guiding the reader on a journey through art, architecture, history, and the culture of imperial Russia.
Bibliographic details
• Publisher: Franco Maria Ricci, Milan
• Series: Guide impossibili
• Year of publication: 1992
• Print run: 5000 numbered copies
• Copy number: 3268
• ISBN: 88-216-0565-5
• FMR Code: GUI115
• Complete with original editorial case
Conditions
Volume in excellent condition.
Clean and well-preserved interiors.
Original case present and in excellent condition.
_________________
"The imperial splendor of Tsarist Saint Petersburg, boreal Palmira with summers without darkness and winters without light."
_____
"Daughter of perhaps the reckless whim of a martial despot, the past (and probably future) Saint Petersburg preserves in the rigid radial lattice of its streets and canals an unmistakably military air. It is a city on alert. Along the endless avenues of perfect alignment, the masses of palaces seem to be regiments assembled for a parade, under the eyes of bronze emperors standing in their saddles in every square, while on the pediments the horses of the chariots of bellicose gods descended from the squalls to witness the splendor of their earthly disciples. Only with the thaw does a jolt of vital disorder revive the ghostly city, when the crust of the Neva creaks, oozes, cracks, and crashes; and against the banks and piers of the bridges the ice rises like dead skin, the greenish slabs hang obliquely in sudden crevasses as if missing beneath someone’s feet, and from those black manholes a damp, dense breath escapes, the sigh of a colossal wine cellar flooded."
Details
Number of books
2
Subject
Cartography, History, Illustrated, Travels
Book title
Fuegia / Ingermanlandia (Sankt-Peterburg)
Author/ Illustrator
AA.VV.
Condition
As new
Publication year oldest item
1986
Publication year youngest item
1992
Edition
1st Edition, Limited edition, Numbered edition
Language
Italian
Original language
Yes
Publisher
Franco Maria Ricci
Binding/ Material
Hardback
Extras
Fold out maps or plates, Slipcase
Number of pages
324
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