Mar 09, 2017 - Sale 2438

Sale 2438 - Lot 3

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
(ARCHITECTURE.) Palladio, Andrea. I Quattro Libri di Architettura. General and divisional titles within woodcut historiated architectural border; profusion of woodcut illustrations, mostly full-page. 67, [1] ; 78, [2]; 3-46, [2]; 56, 76-133, [1] (of [3]) pages, including blank 2K4; lacks 3A1 (title to part 3); 4H1-4I4 (pages 57-72 in part 4); and final blank 4R4. 4 parts in one volume. Folio, 303x205 mm, old vellum over stiff wrappers, soiled and worn, missing portions of vellum from spine; intermittent marginal soiling, stain in lower margin of opening leaves, minor worming in gutters toward beginning minimally affecting text and illustrations, clean tear in 2A2, dark stain on page 13 in part 3, hole in front free endpaper. 17th-century armorial bookplate of Pierre de Lannion by Jacques Picart on otherwise blank general title verso; modern bookplate of St. Benedict's Abbey, Fort Augustus, Scotland, on front pastedown. Venice: Bartholomeo Carampello, 1581

Additional Details

Second edition after the first of 1570, "the most studied of the architectural treatises of the Renaissance" (Millard). Fowler 213; Millard IV, 66.