VITALE Capitolato Tariffa Prezzi Lavori Napoli 1898 Architecture Engineering RAR

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CAPITOLATO E TARIFFA DI PREZZI PER LAVORI NELLA CITTA DI NAPOLI E SUE ADIACENZE (1898)Author: Ing. Ettore Vitale (Civil Engineer)Publisher: Napoli, Enrico M. Muca Editore - Via S. Sebastiano 51Publication Year: 1898 (First Edition)Format: Octavo (8vo), contemporary half-leather binding.ITEM OVERVIEW AND HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCEUp for sale is an incredibly rare, historically significant late 19th-century Italian engineering and architectural reference work: "Capitolato e Tariffa di Prezzi per Lavori nella Città di Napoli". Authored by the prominent Neapolitan civil engineer Ettore Vitale and published in Naples in 1898.This official document serves as a crucial historical record of the building economy, labor laws, materials costs, and public work specifications in the city of Naples during the crucial industrial and urban transformation era known as the "Risanamento" (late 1800s). It contains comprehensive price lists for masonry, ironwork, carpentry, and urban excavations of the period. An exceptional, scarce acquisition for academic libraries, collectors of architectural history, civil engineering heritage, and late 19th-century Southern Italian publishing.DETAILED CONDITION REPORT (Antiquarian Standards)BINDING AND COVER: VG (Very Good). The volume features a beautiful contemporary yellow-tinted half-leather spine with elegant hand-inked horizontal decorations and crisp lettering. The binding is structurally tight, secure, and well-preserved with very minimal shelf rubbing

• Year: 1898

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