Jun 10, 2015 - Sale 2387

Sale 2387 - Lot 5

Price Realized: $ 1,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
CAPRA, ALESSANDRO. La nuova Architettura Famigliare. Divisional titles within woodcut architectural borders, frontispiece portrait of the author, 2 folding woodcut plates and 140 woodcuts in the text. [i-xvi], [184] pages. Small 4to, contemporary vellum; scattered mild toning, first folding plate reinforced along folds, the second, slightly trimmed, backed in paper, and reinserted. first edition of a profusely illustrated manual on agriculture, building, hydraulic engineering, surveying, and machinery by the Cremonese architect. Fowler 79; Berlin 2752. Bologna: Giacomo Monti, 1678