Oct 17, 2017 - Sale 2457

Sale 2457 - Lot 9

Price Realized: $ 2,080
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
SCAMOZZI, VINCENZO. L'Idea dell'Architettura Universale . . . Parte Prima [Seconda]. 3 double- and 39 full-page woodcut illustrations; 5 double- and 39 full-page engraved illustrations. [14] (of [16]), 90, [7], 96-128, 125-193, [2], 194-218, [4], 219-352, [34]; [12], 172, [4], 173-232, 235-279 [i. e., 269], [5], 271-370, [21] pages, including 2 engraved titles; lacks fly-title to book 1 in first volume. 2 volumes in one. Folio, 340x228 mm, 18th-century calf gilt, spine chipped at top, missing lower portion of bottom compartment; few small stains on A6 in second volume, contents otherwise generally quite clean. Venice: (Giorgio Valentino), 1615

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first edition. "The last, the longest, and the most ambitious of the Renaissance treatises on architecture"--Millard IV, 123. Fowler 292.