Catalogue 38
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Architecture
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“One of the Most Beautiful Comprehensive 'Monumental' Treatises"
– Descargues
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HEINEKEN, Paul. Lucidum Prospectivae Speculum, Das ist: Ein heller Spiegel der Perspective. Augsburg, Heirs of Jeremiah Wolff, 1727.
Rare first edition of this richly illustrated work on practical perspective.
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Villa Borghese At 1700
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MONTELATICI, Domenico. Villa Borghese fuori di Porta Pinciana, con l'ornamenti, che si osservano nel di lei palazzo, e con le figure delle statue pi'golare. Rome, G.F. Buagni, 1700.
Scarce first edition and appealing copy of the first pocket guide to Villa Borghese, one of the great Baroque suburban villas which always had a tradition of receiving the public (hence the need for pocket guides).
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‘The First Critical Analysis of Palladio's Work'
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PALLADIO, Andrea. Le Fabbriche e i Disegni di Andrea Palladio raccolti ed illustrati da Ottavio Bertotti Scamozzi Opera divisa in quattro tomi con tavole in rame rappresentanti le piante, I prospetti, e gli spaccati. Vincenza, Giovanni Rossi, 1797.
Attractive quarto edition of Bertotti Scamozzi’s edition of the oeuvre of Palladio, bound with what is (according to Fowler) customarily considered the work’s fifth volume, his Le Terme Dei Romani.
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A Student's Vignola
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VIGNOLA, Jacopo Barozzi da/PREMOLI, Paolo Filippo, ed. La prospettiva pratica: delineata in tavole a norma della seconda regola. Bologna, Lelio dalla Volpe, 1744.
Rare and interesting abridged edition of Vignola’s Le Due Regole Della Prospettiva Pratica (first 1583), a convenient, small-format textbook for 18th-century architecture students.
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First Vitruvius Published in Germany
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VITRUVIUS /RYFF, Walter, ed. De Architectura Libri Decem…nuc in primum in Germania qua potuit diligentia excusi, atque hinc inde schemetibus non iniucundus exornati. Strasbourg, Knobloch, 1543.
Scarce first edition of the first edition of Vitruvius published in Germany, illustrated with reduced copies of the woodcuts found in the 1521 Como edition; also containing an edition of Frontinus on aqueducts, the most important ancient treatise on the subject, as well as the second edition (first c. 1500) of an important text by Nicolaus of Cusa containing the first experiment in plant physiology.
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