Oct 17, 2017 - Sale 2457
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Sale 2457 - Lot 63

Price Realized: $ 390
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
MILIZIA, FRANCESCO. Memorie degli Architetti Antichi e Moderni. [12], cxix, [1], 371, [1]; [4], 436 pages, including half-titles. 2 volumes. 8vo, 218x140 mm, contemporary marbled boards, rebacked with calf; contents clean; board slipcase. Modern owner's bookplates on half-titles. Parma, 1781
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Third edition, the only one printed by Bodoni, of a 1768 history of architecture patterned after Vasari, "especially valuable as a source for 18th-century Italian architects"--Arntzen & Rainwater H108. Brooks 189. Bound opposite the half-title in Volume 1 is a scarce leaf printed by Bodoni with the text of a 1781 brief from Pope Pius VI thanking him for the gift of 2 of his publications. Brooks 178.