Oct 24, 2024 - Sale 2683

Sale 2683 - Lot 144

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Juan (1606-1682)
[Architectura Civil Recta y Obliqua.] Las Orthographias de los Edificios; Altares, y Vasos del Templo de Jerusalen.

Vigevano: In Officina Episcopali apud Camillum Corradam, 1678.

First edition, folio, four parts in one volume; volume II only of II; each part with separate engraved title pages and illustrated with an additional 157 full paged engraved plates with a short table at the end, otherwise completely engraved; lacking the portraits of Caramuel and John of Austria; bound in full contemporary German blind-tooled alum-tawed pigskin over wooden boards with catches and clasps present, edges stained blue, with parchment fore-edge tabs marking each section neatly labeled in a handsome calligraphic hand from the period, contents nicely preserved, a few plates folded at the fore-edge; 13 3/4 x 8 3/4 in.

Volume II only representing the plate volume produced to accompany Caramuel's Architectura Civil Recta y Obliqua.