Lo stato presente della Sicilia, o sia, Breve e distinta descrizione di essa
By: del sig. abate Arcangiolo Leanti ... ; accresciuta colle notizie della isole aggiacenti, e con varj rami, aggiunte, e correzioni
Contributors: Bova, Antonino, active 1750-1773; Valenza, Francesco
Publisher: Per Francesco Valenza impressore della Ss. Crociata
Published: 1761
Place of publication: In Palermo
Language: ita
Subjects: Social life and customs; Economic conditions; Description and travel
Notes: Date precedes publisher on t.p.

Frontispiece engraved by Giuseppe Garofalo. Nearly all plates etched by Antonino Bova, some after Paolo Rizzo, Andrea Pigonati, Francesco Battaglia, Joseph Palazzotto, Nicola Anito. Other plates by Giuseppe Orazi (two, one after Lorenzo Olivier), Francesco Orlando, Francesco Bongiovanni after Rizzo.

Signed and paged continuously.

Signatures, v. 1: a⁸ b⁴ A-N⁸ O⁸(-O8); v. 2: chi² P-2B⁸ 2C⁴, ²a-b⁸ c(-c8).

Pagination, v. 1: [2], XXI, [1], 222 p., [33] leaves of plates (most folded) -- v. 2: [2], 223-407, [1], 45, [1] (the last blank), [7] folded leaves of plates.

Includes index.

Errata, p. 403-407.

Getty copy lacks plates 29 and 37 as listed in Registro delle figure. Plate 40 (plan of Catania) misbound at p. 161. Frontispiece repeated at beginning of v. 2, though not called for in Registro.

Rebound in half calf, preserving older marbled paper. Title on spine labels in gilt.

Bookplate of Edmund Hardman. Pencilled initials WH, dated Palermo, 1818. Ulrich Middeldorf's printed label.