Oct 24, 2013 - Sale 2327

Sale 2327 - Lot 1

Price Realized: $ 1,950
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
(ARCHITECTURE.) Alberti, Battista Leon. L'Architettura. Title within a woodcut historiated border with portrait on verso, woodcut plates and illustrations, one double-page plate. [3], 404, [28], [2] pages. 4to, modern mottled calf with raised bands, gilt-lettering and blindstamping in a sensitive contemporary style; scattered light foxing, unobtrusive worm holes to title and endleaves, title-page with repaired short clean tear and two faint ink library stamps. second but preferred edition. Fowler 9; Adams A489; Cicognara 375; Gamba 1186. Venice: Francesco Franceschi Sanese, 1565