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TEMANZA, Tommaso. Vita di Andrea Palladio Vicentino Egregio Architetto, Venice: Giambatisia Pasquali, 1762, 4° (290 x 225mm.), FIRST EDITION, engraved portrait frontispiece by Brustoloni, one small engraving in text, with final errata leaf (some light marginal staining), contemporary limp pasteboards (spine worn), uncut, modern green buckram box. [Brunet V, 693; Cicognara 2376; Fowler 344] -- [Francesco MILIZIA] Le Vite de' Più Celebri Architetti d'ogni nazione e d'ogni tempo precedute da un saggio sopra l'archittetura, Rome: Paolo Giunchi Komarek for Monaldini, 1768, 4° (260 x 180mm.), FIRST EDITION, engraved title with etched vignette, etched headpieces and initials, 6 folding plates at end (2G2 holed with loss to 2 lines of text, some heavy spotting, occasional marginal thumb-soiling and tears), contemporary calf (rather worn). With one other biographical work in French. (3)