May 01, 2014 - Sale 2348

Sale 2348 - Lot 142

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
SCAMOZZI, VINCENZO. Dell'Idea dell'Architettura. Profusion of engraved illustrations, some double-page. [14] (of [16]), 1-91, [8], 96-193 [i. e., 197], [2], 195-218, [4], 219-353, [33]; [12], 1-172, [4], 173-268, [4], 271-370, [22] pages; lacks the engraved additional title. 2 volumes in one. Folio, 323x225 mm, contemporary vellum boards with calligraphic spine title in ink; offsetting from illustrations, scattered marginal foxing and minor stains, inscription inked out on general title, small portion of imprint excised and restored with text supplied in pen-and-ink facsimile, front free endpaper lacking. Piazzola: Nel Luoco delle Vergini, 1687

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"The last, the longest, and the most ambitious of the Renaissance treatises on architecture"--Millard IV, 123 (1615 original edition).