May 09, 2013 - Sale 2313

Sale 2313 - Lot 136

Price Realized: $ 1,020
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(ARCHITECTURE.) Scamozzi, Vincent. Oeuvres d'Architecture de . . . contenuës dans son idée de l'Architecture universelle. Translated by Augustin Charles d'Aviler and Samuel du Ry. Engraved half-title, additional engraved title incorporating medallion portrait of Scamozzi, title-page in red and black with vignette, 64 plates (3 folding), 45 woodcut illustrations (1 folding, 1 double-page). [16], 276 pages. Folio, contemporary brown calf, worn; gutter lightly dampstained through first signature, another semicircular stain to outer margins of final two signatures, occasional short marginal tears and creases, mostly clean; early owner's stamps on half-title and final blank. Leiden: Pierre vander Aa, 1713

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augmented french edition of the last of the great architectural treatises of the renaissance, and the book which provided the final codification of the classical orders. Graesse VI1, 290; Brunet V, 180. Berlin 2608; Cicognara 655.