Lot 163
  • 163

Palladio, Andrea--Bertotti-Scamozzi, Ottavio.

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Description

  • Le fabbriche e i disegni di Andrea Palladio. Vicenza: Giovanni Rossi, 1786, second Scamozzi edition, 4 volumes, folio, engraved portrait frontispiece, vignette on each title, arms on dedication in volume 4, and 207 plates, plans, elevations and sections, many double-page or folding, occasional light spotting or soiling, final 6 plates in vol.4 with large stain, plate 48 (vol.3) with neat marginal tear not affecting engraved area
[Ibid.] Le Terme dei Romani disegnate da Andrea Palladio... giusta l'esemplare del Lord co[mte] di Burlington. Vicenza: Francesco Modena, 1785, first scamozzi edition, folio, engraved frontispiece, arms on dedication, 25 engraved plans, elevations and sections, most double-page, plate 18 apparently supplied from another copy, with loss along an old fold and stained



together 5 volumes, folio (480 x 340mm.), uniformly bound in contemporary half diced russia over marbled boards, flat spines lettered and numbered (I-V) in gilt, joints split or splitting, bindings rather rubbed, some loss to marbled paper, spines slightly worn

Literature

RIBA cf.259 (1776), cf.2380 (French edition); Fowler cf.231 (1783), 234; Cicognara cf.598 (1783), 599; Berlin Kat. cf.2722 (1783), 1877