Lot 82
Ferrerio (Pietro) & Giovanni Battista Falda., Palazzi di Roma de piu Celebri Architetti..., 2 vol. in 1, Rome, Gio. Giacomo Rossi, [1655.-70 but later].
Hammer Price: £1,400
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Ferrerio (Pietro) & Giovanni Battista Falda. Palazzi di Roma de piu Celebri Architetti... [&] Nuovi Disegni dell'Architteture, e Piante de' Palazzi di Roma..., 2 vol. in 1, engraved throughout with 2 pictorial titles and 101 plates & plans, one folding, with an additional engraved view 'Prospettiva del Giardino Pontificio su'l Quirinale' by Falda mounted on sheet bound in at end, occasional light marginal foxing, folding plate with short tear along platemark repaired, upper hinge broken, contemporary half russia over glazed speckled boards, rubbed, rebacked, corners worn, [Berlin Kat. 2665; Millard Italian 37], oblong folio, Rome, Gio. Giacomo Rossi, [1655-70 but later].
⁂ "This is the first publication to provide systematic, measured, and uniformly scaled illustrations of Roman palaces built in the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries". (Millard). It features the work of architects such as Michelangelo, Vignola, Fontana, Bramante, Raphael, Borromini and others. The number of plates appears to vary according to which issue it is, itself difficult to determine.
Description
Ferrerio (Pietro) & Giovanni Battista Falda. Palazzi di Roma de piu Celebri Architetti... [&] Nuovi Disegni dell'Architteture, e Piante de' Palazzi di Roma..., 2 vol. in 1, engraved throughout with 2 pictorial titles and 101 plates & plans, one folding, with an additional engraved view 'Prospettiva del Giardino Pontificio su'l Quirinale' by Falda mounted on sheet bound in at end, occasional light marginal foxing, folding plate with short tear along platemark repaired, upper hinge broken, contemporary half russia over glazed speckled boards, rubbed, rebacked, corners worn, [Berlin Kat. 2665; Millard Italian 37], oblong folio, Rome, Gio. Giacomo Rossi, [1655-70 but later].
⁂ "This is the first publication to provide systematic, measured, and uniformly scaled illustrations of Roman palaces built in the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries". (Millard). It features the work of architects such as Michelangelo, Vignola, Fontana, Bramante, Raphael, Borromini and others. The number of plates appears to vary according to which issue it is, itself difficult to determine.
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