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Giovanni Amico
The practical architect in which the rules for learning Civil Architecture are easily given, 1726
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€ 200 - 400
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€ 258
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Palermo, in the printing press of Gio. Battista Aiccardo, 1726. In 2°. Only the first volume. Allegorical frontispiece depicting a large press under which volumes of the work are printed, surrounded by winged putti, angels, cherubs, statues, all on the sides of a central fountain, on the second card a large effigy of the patriarch Joachim, on the third card a portrait in oval of Count Gioachino Fernandez Portocarrero, dedicatee of the work, 62 engravings in the text and outside the text, some folded, including a series of portraits of the most famous architects from Vitruvius to Barozzi da Vignola, foxing, slight redness, some marginal tears on some plates and leaves, small lack on the frontispiece, endpapers with handwritten notes and drawings, contemporary parchment binding, front plate partially detached, defects. Signature of the Catania architect Carmelo Sciuto Patti (1829 – 1898) on the flyleaf and of his father, Salvatore Sciuto Borzì on the back pastedown.