Vintage Pozzallo Sicily Italian Regional History & Art Book Lot Ragusa Sigona 10

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$150 · Offered by eBay

Up for sale is a rare, highly specialized 10-book collector's lot focused entirely on the history, maritime traditions, art, and cultural identity of the coastal town of Pozzallo and the surrounding Ragusa province in Sicily, Italy. This unique estate collection is an invaluable resource for academic researchers, historians, or genealogists tracking family heritage roots in the Ragusa and Pozzallo region. Most of these softcover volumes were published directly under local municipal patronage (Edizioni Comune di Pozzallo) and are incredibly difficult to find outside of Italy.This 10-volume historical compilation features three identical duplicate copies of the foundational Monografia di Pozzallo by Ruggiero Sigona, which details local landmarks and maritime history. It also includes Gianni Cataudella’s comprehensive Pozzallo nel Secolo XIX: Profilo storico, Gruppo «Posallus»’s localized study Pozzallo: La Suggestiva Terrazza Sul Mare, and Luigi Rogasi’s Guida di Pozzallo, which includes a city map and a vintage municipal presentation stamp. Expanding out to the broader region, the lot contains Giuseppe Iacono's illustrated Guida alla Provincia di Ragusa, Salvatore Giovanni Palumbo’s maritime reflection volume Il mare: ricordi e sogni, a rare 1983 exhibition art catalog titled Retrospettiva Antologica di Rodolfo Cristina celebrating the famous Pozzallo-born painter, and a classic copy of La giara by the legendary Nobel Prize-winning Sicilian author Luigi Pirandello.All books ar

  • Publisher: Edizioni Comune di Pozzallo / Various
  • Condition: Good

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