Vicenza, Heredi di Dominico Amadio, 1627 (colophon).
Archisesto per formar con facilità li cinque ordini d’architettura.
Rare first and only edition, first issue, of the Vicenza architect Ottavio Revesi Bruti’s (c. 1585-1648) richly illustrated folio describing his new instrument for accurately constructing scale drawings of the architectural orders without reliance on laborious calculations, a boon both for practical architects eager to avoid difficult mathematics on the..... More