Franco Mancini. FESTE ED APPARATI CIVILI E RELIGIOSI IN NAPOLI DAL VICEREGNO ALLA CAPITALE. Naples: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 1968. Limited edition, no. 366 of 1000. Hardcover. Quarter brown leather over white paper-covered boards, gilt stamped designs and lettering on spine. Large folio; 312pp. Text in Italian. With frontispiece and numerous b&w and color illustrations and full-page plates, some folding. This limited edition copy was presented by the publisher to "Mr. Stansfield Turner / Admiral, U.S. Navy / Commander in Chief Allied Forces Southern Europe."

20 1/16 x 14 5/8 in.

From the Collection of Professor Roberto Severino, Washington, D.C.

This book focuses on a nearly 300-year history of celebrations and festivities in Naples, Italy, offering a good general resource for scholars with extensive illustrations.

Stansfield Turner served in the U.S. Navy for over thirty years and was director of the CIA in the late 1970s.

Wear to boards including dents and bumped corners, leather rubbed at edges, head, and tail, with associated losses; pages lightly toned, offsetting on front free endpaper, paperclip mark on endpaper and frontispiece, (1) plate with blemish, several pages with minor grime, marks, or lightly creased corners, faint staining at edges; internally clean and crisp overall; very good condition in removable protective jacket.