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Architettura - Di Fausto, Florestano

Florestano Di Fausto, 1932

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Genève, Editions "Les Archives Internationales", 1932, 20x16.2 cm., editorial cloth binding with slight traces of use, pp. XXXII, cover with title and illustration printed in silver, 109 b.n. illustrations. in 60 tables f.t. with projects and creations by the architect Florestano Di Fausto in Rome, Milan, Loreto (Villa of the tenor Beniamino Gigli), Predappio, Belgrade, Algiers, Tunis, Cairo, Rhodes (with 44 illustrations), Cos, Tirana and Tripoli. Italian and French text. Slight browning on some pages. § Piacentini, Marcello, The face of Rome and other images, Rome, Edizioni della Bussola, 1944, 21.5x16 cm., paperback, dust jacket, pp. 170-(6), illustrated cover and 14 f.t. plates. to the author's line. "In this volume Piacentini combines the exalted idiolatry for our divine Cities - all the more loved today for their fatal mutilations - a profound critical analysis of architecture and architects of all time, as only those who have had the opportunity can do to penetrate, through serious and long studies and well-nourished experience, the intimate essence (From the flyleaf on the cover). Some underlining in pencil and a small reinforcement of adhesive tape on the upper edge of the spine. § Belisario, Ezio, Rome Capital or not, Rome, Edizioni Contemporanee, 1954.


Specialist Notes

First work: First edition. [Bibliography: Bibliographic guide 1933: n. 1.062 bis]
Second work: Original edition.