May 15, 2012 - Sale 2279

Sale 2279 - Lot 249

Unsold
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
ALBERTI, GIUSEPPE ANTONIO. Trattato della Misura delle Fabbriche. 38 engraved plates. xxxii, 279, [3] pages, including engraved frontispiece, portrait of the author, and errata leaf at end. 8vo, original boards; some light dampstaining in upper margins, small wormhole through preliminaries not impairing legibility; uncut. Venice: Giambattista Recurti, 1757

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first edition of a treatise on applied stereometry, demonstrating the measurement of solid geometrical figures for architectural and engineering purposes. Riccardi I, 16-17.