Sep 20, 2001 - Sale 1905

Sale 1905 - Lot 9

Price Realized: $ 1,840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(MANUSCRIPT.) Palladio, Andrea. I Quattro Libri Dell'Architettura. Mid-eighteenth century architectural manual, entirely in manuscript, of the third edition of 1601. 63 full-page plates and numerous illustrations throughout the text in a fairly detailed hand. Printed on versos and rectos. Folio, 325x220 mm, 13x8½ inches, contemporary boards, remnants of hand-painted spine, rubbed, wormholes with one 2-mm spot through first several leaves, scattered dampstaining to first several leaves. should be seen.<\t>Np, mid-18th century

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A handsome example of a hand-printed architectural manuscript. See Fowler 214 for description of this edition.