Nov 20, 2003 - Sale 1986

Sale 1986 - Lot 11

Price Realized: $ 1,840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(ARCHITECTURE.) Vignola (Barozzi, Giacomo). Il Vignola Illustrato Proposto da Giambattista Spampani e Carlo Antonini. Portrait of Pope Clement XIV, engraved additional title (bound at end), 55 plates, woodcut head- and tailpieces, initials, and 2 engraved tailpieces. Small folio, 18th century 1/4 calf gilt, worn, stain to lower outer corner, affects margin of leaves through page 8 and additional title at end; title-page reinforced along gutter, scattered mostly marginal toning, especially to Perspective section. Rome: Marco Pagliarini, 1770

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Contains a full description of the five orders and a digest of Vignola's Perspective. Later revised and enlarged in 1795. Although rebound with sections rearranged from collation in Fowler copy, the contents are complete. Fowler 380;