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Architecture.- Arnaldi (Enea) Delle Basiliche Antiche, e Specialmente di Quella del Celebre Andea Palladio, second edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, 8 folding plates, small ink-stamp to title, marginal worm damage to final few leaves (repaired), nineteenth-century half calf, slightly rubbed extremities, 4to, [Fowler 30, Schlosser-Magnino 568, Cicognara 876], Vicenza, 1769. ⁂ Second edition, a larger, more deluxe printing that the first edition. Arnaldi (1716-1794), architect and art historian, was responsible for the restoration of Palladio's Basilica in Vicenza. Provenance: Marchese Giuseppe Arconati Visconti (1797-1883) with his crowned oval stamp on title.