Guida generale di Sicilia e Malta storica, artistica, commerciale : Notizie generali geografiche e statistiche guide particolareggiate delle principali citta e descrizione di tutti gl'itinerarii indicatore professionale e commerciale album di annunzii
A late-nineteenth-century Italian travel guide to Sicily and Malta, compiled by Niccolò Giannotta and published in Catania in 1889 for commercial travellers and tourists. The pictures are printed city plans of Trapani, Messina and Catania and a map of the slopes of Mount Etna, drawn in muted colour with dense street grids, harbour outlines and place-name lettering. A designer might take the layered tints, fine linework and compact legend boxes as a model for vintage cartographic layouts.
