Copper engraving, 170x280 mm. Rare view engraved by Antonio Bova. Taken from “Lo stato presente della Sicilia o sia breve, e distinta descrizione di essa...accresciuta colle notizie delle isole aggiacenti” (Palermo, Francesco Valenza, 1761). A rare work, published in a single edition, a fundamental account of the most noteworthy things in Sicily, written by Leanti, poet and author of plays, who was appointed royal historian, founder of the Accademia del buon Gusto in Palermo in 1764. Good example with traces of printing folds, trimmed on platemark at right