(Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photography, 31st January 2019) BERTOTTI-SCAMOZZI, OTTAVIO IL FORESTIERE ISTRUITO DELLE COSE PIU' RARE DI ARCHITETTURA...DELLA CITTA' DI VICENZA Vicenza: Mosca, 1761. First edition, 4to., engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved vignette on the title-page and 36 engraved plates (the majority folding), modern full calf, spine gilt in compartments, title page a little dusty and with neat small ownership stamp, some marginal worming throughout, with a few holes repaired, in a few instances touching the inner margins of the plates, with the book plates of John Bury and Michael BuryNote: This guide to Vicenza, by the doyen of the Palladian Revival in Italy is almost entirely devoted to the buildings of Palladio and Scamozzi. The folding plates show elevations of Palladian buildings - and there are two plates of the interior of the Teatro Olimpico. There was a second edition in 1780. The author was much ought-after as a cicerone by those cognoscenti on the Grand Tour.
(Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photography, 31st January 2019) BERTOTTI-SCAMOZZI, OTTAVIO IL FORESTIERE ISTRUITO DELLE COSE PIU' RARE DI ARCHITETTURA...DELLA CITTA' DI VICENZA Vicenza: Mosca, 1761. First edition, 4to., engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved vignette on the title-page and 36 engraved plates (the majority folding), modern full calf, spine gilt in compartments, title page a little dusty and with neat small ownership stamp, some marginal worming throughout, with a few holes repaired, in a few instances touching the inner margins of the plates, with the book plates of John Bury and Michael BuryNote: This guide to Vicenza, by the doyen of the Palladian Revival in Italy is almost entirely devoted to the buildings of Palladio and Scamozzi. The folding plates show elevations of Palladian buildings - and there are two plates of the interior of the Teatro Olimpico. There was a second edition in 1780. The author was much ought-after as a cicerone by those cognoscenti on the Grand Tour.
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