Oct 12, 2006 - Sale 2088

Sale 2088 - Lot 19

Price Realized: $ 4,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,000
(ARCHITECTURE.) Scamozzi, Vincenzo. L'Idea della Architettura Universale. Two parts [six books] bound in one [complete]. Engraved titles, 44 woodcuts, 46 copper engraved plates including 8 double-page. Folio, gilt-lettered calf, heavily scuffed, front cover becoming loose; edges stained red, title backed with thick paper leaving some glue and red bleed-over on fore edge, light marginalia and contemporary owner's signature in its margins, left margin of adjacent leaf glued to its verso; light dampstaining affecting lower outer corner of half of contents, additional faint dampstaining to upper outer margins of second half; booklabel of Rt. Hon. William Patrick Adam (son of architect Robert Adam) on front pastedown. Venice, 1615
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first edition. Irregular pagination as usual, but complete. This treatise, published the year preceding his death, was supposed to expand to ten volumes, but only six were completed. Scamozzi worked primarily in the Veneto and was the principal architect in realizing the unfinished designs of his predecessor Andrea Palladio. His own most noted structures are the Villa Rotunda and Teatro Olimpico in Venice. Berlin 2605; Brunet V, 180; Fowler 292.