Gerola, Giuseppe.

first edition, 4 volumes bound in 5, 4to (355 x 255mm.), illustrations, original wrappers, parts 1 and 2 of volume one housed together in an original board chemise

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Rare. limited editions of 500 copies (final volume one of 300 copies). Only one copy has been sold at a British auction in the last 30 years (sale in these rooms 15 November 2007, lot 139, £4,800).

Gerola's work remains irreplaceable for the study of Venetian architecture in Crete. The work comprises: volume 1 (1905), part I, I centri abitati, part II, Le fortificazioni (this continued in the separately-bound next part of volume 1 (1906); volume 2 (1908), part III, La chiese; volume 3 (1927), part IV, Gli edifice pubblica e governatiui, part V, Monasteri e abitazioni private; volume 5 (1932), part VI, Opere idrauliche, le appendici (stemmi ed inscrizioni) e gli indici.