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SANDRART, JOACHIM VON. L'Academia Todesca della Architectura, Scultura & Pittura; oder, Teutsche Academie der edlen Bau- Bild- und Mahlerey-Künste. 252 (of 262?) engraved plates, some double-page or folding; Volume 1/1 book 2 lacks plates e, g, k, p, and q; Volume 2/1 book 1 lacks the folding map of Rome, and book 2 lacks plates p, q, aa, and bb. [16], 105, [1]; [2], 376, [12]; 24; [6], 100; [4], 91, [3]; [4], 96, [2]; [2], 174, [4] pages, including 2 half-titles, 2 frontispieces, 2 portraits, and 6 engraved titles. 7 parts in 2 volumes. Folio, 377x246 mm, contemporary sheep gilt, moderate wear, Volume 1 front joint partly cracked at bottom, hinges reinforced; varying foxing or browning marginally affecting some plates, occasional soiling and minor stains, blank portrait oval in plate facing page 374 in Volume 1/2 filled in with early 19th-century grotesque caricature in ink, repaired clean tears across plates 31 and 51 in Volume 2/2. Nuremberg: Johann-Philipp Miltenberger for Jacob von Sandrart, 1675-79
first edition of a monumental work combining theoretical and historical writings on art and architecture, a biographical dictionary of artists, descriptions of antiquities and collections, and a paraphrase of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Arntzen & Rainwater H74; Millard III, 111.
