Folio (570 x 400 mm). Title page and 16 lithographic plates by Victor Adam, Hostein, Lemercier, Vanderburck, Jacottet, and Bardel. Loose within a modern portfolio—half-bound in red leather with marbled paper sides, featuring a gilt title on a label on the front cover (minor defects); some foxing, browning, and a small water stain on one plate. A collection of plates that is extremely difficult to find on the market. The sixteen lithographs depict splendid views of Sardinia along the island's central road—a project commissioned by King Charles Felix, on which Giuseppe Cominotti and Carlo Paolo Enrico Marchesi collaborated. Cominotti—a painter, architect, and topographer—was sent to Sardinia in May 1823 at the start of the construction, while Marchesi, an engineer and draftsman, had arrived on the island in May 1822, appointed as a draftsman for the Department of Bridges and Roads. The plates, drawn between 1827 and 1832, were lithographed in Paris by some of the finest French artists of the era at the lithographic studio of Mademoiselle Formentin.