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Palladio, Andrea

The architecture of Andrea Palladio divided into four books ..., 1642

Estimate

€ 300 - 600

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€ 1.408

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Information

Venice, Marco Antonio Brogiollo, 1642. In 2nd. 4 parts in one volume, full-page engraved title page in elaborately illustrated architectural frame with Widman coat of arms on the gable (inc. Francesco Valesio), fully illustrated edition with numerous full-page woodcut illustrations, decorations and 4 woodcut initials, errors in page numbering, browning and foxing, last page with tear without loss of text, coeval binding of the century  XIX, in brown calfskin, on the plates a frame impressed in gold, in the center of the field the inscription "Premio del Disegno" in gold, and on the plate  lower" Desenzano 1814"  AL spine red leather gusset with author and title, defects. Note of ownership on endpaper of contemporary hand.


Specialist Notes

Last Italian reprint, following those of 1581, 1601 and 1616, in which the original wooden matrices of the Quattro libri dell'architettura published in Venice in 1570 for Domenico de' Franceschi are reused. For this edition a new intaglio title page was created which takes up the design and replaces the woodcut used for the original title page.

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