Gianfranco Miglio - Larivs - 1959

LARIVS – The city and Lake Como in descriptions and images from classical antiquity to the Romantic era.

Prestigious historical-artistic and iconographic work directed by Gianfranco Miglio, published in Milan by Edizioni Luigi Alfieri in 1959, within the publications of the Società Storica Comense.

Limited edition of only 600 numbered copies – Copy no. 130.

The collection for sale includes 3 original volumes, all complete with their respective parts:

* Volume I: From the origins to the end of the seventeenth century.
* Volume III: Album of views of Lake Como – Part One, complete with 22 plates.
* Volume IV: Iconographic album, complete with 48 plates.

Total: 70 plates across volumes III and IV.

A work of particular historical, artistic and collectible interest, dedicated to the history, landscapes, views and iconographic documentation of the Como territory.

Elegant editorial bindings in cloth, with decorative titles and ornaments, and frontispieces richly adorned.

Conditions: volumes complete with their respective parts, with yellowing, stains and normal signs of time on the covers and pages, consistent with the period.

Please note that Volume II is not present.

Ideal for collectors of antique and rare books, enthusiasts of local history, cartography and iconography of Lake Como.

Sale of the three volumes together, as shown in the photographs.