PALLADIO, Andrea (1508-1580). Les Bátimens et les Desseins de André Palladio recueillis et illustrés par Octave Bertotti Scamozzi . Vicenza: Giovanni Rossi 1786. 4 volumes, 2° (460 x 320mm). Engraved portrait of Palladio, engraved vignettes to titles, 208 plates (on 210 sheets) of which 33 double-page by David Rossi, Gaetano Testolini and others. (Light crease on title of vol. IV, occasional browning, light spotting and soiling.) Contemporary red straight-grained half morocco over red straight-grained paper-covered boards (extremities lightly rubbed, corners bumped). Provenance : Bibliothèque de M. Tourton (label) -- Bruno Hessling (Berlin bookseller's ticket).
PALLADIO, Andrea (1508-1580). Les Bátimens et les Desseins de André Palladio recueillis et illustrés par Octave Bertotti Scamozzi . Vicenza: Giovanni Rossi 1786. 4 volumes, 2° (460 x 320mm). Engraved portrait of Palladio, engraved vignettes to titles, 208 plates (on 210 sheets) of which 33 double-page by David Rossi, Gaetano Testolini and others. (Light crease on title of vol. IV, occasional browning, light spotting and soiling.) Contemporary red straight-grained half morocco over red straight-grained paper-covered boards (extremities lightly rubbed, corners bumped). Provenance : Bibliothèque de M. Tourton (label) -- Bruno Hessling (Berlin bookseller's ticket). The second French edition. Bertotti Scamozzi (1719-1790), who produced and illustrated this edition, was a distinguished architect and the main representative of neoclassical art in Vicenza, Palladio's home town. 'Fece cosa nobile e grandiosa nel produrre queste grandi opera Palladiane, e nell'illustrarle' (Cicognara). The Architectural Library , AL2, P171; for the first edition of 1776-83, cf. Berlin Kat. 2722, Cicognara 598 and Fowler 231. (4)
PALLADIO, Andrea (1508-1580). Les Bátimens et les Desseins de André Palladio recueillis et illustrés par Octave Bertotti Scamozzi . Vicenza: Giovanni Rossi 1786. 4 volumes, 2° (460 x 320mm). Engraved portrait of Palladio, engraved vignettes to titles, 208 plates (on 210 sheets) of which 33 double-page by David Rossi, Gaetano Testolini and others. (Light crease on title of vol. IV, occasional browning, light spotting and soiling.) Contemporary red straight-grained half morocco over red straight-grained paper-covered boards (extremities lightly rubbed, corners bumped). Provenance : Bibliothèque de M. Tourton (label) -- Bruno Hessling (Berlin bookseller's ticket).
PALLADIO, Andrea (1508-1580). Les Bátimens et les Desseins de André Palladio recueillis et illustrés par Octave Bertotti Scamozzi . Vicenza: Giovanni Rossi 1786. 4 volumes, 2° (460 x 320mm). Engraved portrait of Palladio, engraved vignettes to titles, 208 plates (on 210 sheets) of which 33 double-page by David Rossi, Gaetano Testolini and others. (Light crease on title of vol. IV, occasional browning, light spotting and soiling.) Contemporary red straight-grained half morocco over red straight-grained paper-covered boards (extremities lightly rubbed, corners bumped). Provenance : Bibliothèque de M. Tourton (label) -- Bruno Hessling (Berlin bookseller's ticket). The second French edition. Bertotti Scamozzi (1719-1790), who produced and illustrated this edition, was a distinguished architect and the main representative of neoclassical art in Vicenza, Palladio's home town. 'Fece cosa nobile e grandiosa nel produrre queste grandi opera Palladiane, e nell'illustrarle' (Cicognara). The Architectural Library , AL2, P171; for the first edition of 1776-83, cf. Berlin Kat. 2722, Cicognara 598 and Fowler 231. (4)
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