Three books only (of four)
Andrea Palladio, revised, design'd and publish'd by Giacomo Leoni, a Venetian, Architect to his most Serene Highness, the Elector Palatine.
Printed by John Watts.
1715
Price £1600
Architecture
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0708. The Architecture of A.Palladio
in four books containing a Short Treatise of the Five Orders, and the most
necessary Observations concerning all Sorts of Building, as also the
different Construction of Private and Publick Houses, High-Ways, Bridges,
Market-Places, Xystes, and Temples, with their Plans, Sections, and
Uprights. To which are added several Notes and Observations made by Inigo
Jones, never printed before.
Three books only (of four) Andrea Palladio, revised, design'd and publish'd by Giacomo Leoni, a Venetian, Architect to his most Serene Highness, the Elector Palatine. Printed by John Watts. 1715 |
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Folio. Contents : Frontispiece engraving, dedication to Giorgio Re della Gran Bretagna Francia ed Irlanda, portrait engraving of Andrea Palladio, Translator's Preface, List of Subscribers, Preface to the Reader, the First Book, 54pp, 31 full page engraved plates, Il Primo Libro, xxx, Préface du Traducteur, Premier Livre, 33pp, Book the Second, 37pp, 61 full page engraved plates, Il Secondo Libro, xxi, Livre Second, 23pp. Book III (bound separately), Second List of Subscribers, Preface to the Reader, the Third Book, 37pp, 19 full page plates, 1 double page plate, Livre Troisième, 23pp, Libro Terzo, xxii. Binding : original panelled leather. Condition : all covers detached, one cover missing, leather torn off in parts, endpapers loose or missing. Small tear to the right hand edge of the frontispiece engraving, and this page is somewhat browned. Text and plates very clean. |
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Price £1600
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