![BALDI, Bernardino (1553-1617). De Verborum Vitruvianorum significatione. Augsburg: Johannes Praetor, 1612. [Bound with:] Scamilli Impares Vitruviani. Augsburg: Johannes Praetor, 1612. 4° (195 x 152mm). Woodcut device on titles, woodcut illustrations, final blank to second work. (Some leaves slightly soiled.) Contemporary limp vellum (slightly soiled, stitching weak, lacks ties). Fowler 34; Cicognara 2147; 408. -- Giovanni BRANCA (1571-ca.1640). Manuale d'Architettura. Ascoli: Massimo Salvioni, 1629. 12° (128 x 88mm). Woodcut illustrations. (Some leaves slightly soiled.) Later calf, gilt centrepiece on covers, green lettering-piece (scuffed). Provenance: 2nd Marquess of Bute (Mountstuart bookplate). FIRST EDITION. See Cicognara 450. -- Marcus VITRUVIUS POLLIO. L'Architettura generale di Vitruvio ridotta in compendio dal Sig. Perrault. Venice: Giambattista Albrizzi, 1747. 8° (160 x 105mm). Engraved frontispiece, title in red and black, 12 full-pa](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/1996/CKS/1996_CKS_05685_0003_000(105439).jpg?w=1)
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BALDI, Bernardino (1553-1617). De Verborum Vitruvianorum significatione. Augsburg: Johannes Praetor, 1612. [Bound with:] Scamilli Impares Vitruviani. Augsburg: Johannes Praetor, 1612. 4° (195 x 152mm). Woodcut device on titles, woodcut illustrations, final blank to second work. (Some leaves slightly soiled.) Contemporary limp vellum (slightly soiled, stitching weak, lacks ties). Fowler 34; Cicognara 2147; 408. -- Giovanni BRANCA (1571-ca.1640). Manuale d'Architettura. Ascoli: Massimo Salvioni, 1629. 12° (128 x 88mm). Woodcut illustrations. (Some leaves slightly soiled.) Later calf, gilt centrepiece on covers, green lettering-piece (scuffed). Provenance: 2nd Marquess of Bute (Mountstuart bookplate). FIRST EDITION. See Cicognara 450. -- Marcus VITRUVIUS POLLIO. L'Architettura generale di Vitruvio ridotta in compendio dal Sig. Perrault. Venice: Giambattista Albrizzi, 1747. 8° (160 x 105mm). Engraved frontispiece, title in red and black, 12 full-page engraved illustrations, one folding. 19th-century half red morocco (scuffed). Provenance: Gilbert R. Redgrave (bookplate). -- Pietro ROSSINI. Il Mercurio Errante delle Grandezze de Roma, tanto antiche, che moderne. Rome: Generoso Salomone for Fausto Amidei, 1750. 2 volumes in one, 12° (156 x 86mm). Half-title, 20 folding engraved plates after F. Piranesi and others. (Some leaves loose, one torn without loss and repaired.) Contemporary vellum (2 wormholes in spine). Schudt 294. -- And 2 others (Giovanni Branca Manuale d'Architettura. Rome: 1772; Francesco Venramini Mosca Descrizione dell' Architettura ... di Vicenza. Vicenza: 1779). (6)