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SERLIO, Sebastiano (1475-1554). Il terzo libro... nel qual si figurano, e descrivono le antiquita di Roma, e le altre che sono in Italia, e fuori d'Italia. Venice: Francesco Marcolini, 1540.
2° (330 x 233mm). Title with woodcut architectural borders, illustrations (some full-page), initials and colophon leaf. (Some light soiling.) Old vellum (modern endpapers, resewn).
FIRST EDITION. "The first genuine advance in architectural illustration seems to have been made by Serlio, and his Libro Terzo set the type of architectural illustration in Italy for the rest of the century": Fowler 308; Mortimer, Harvard Italian 472; Berlin Kat. 2560.
2° (330 x 233mm). Title with woodcut architectural borders, illustrations (some full-page), initials and colophon leaf. (Some light soiling.) Old vellum (modern endpapers, resewn).
FIRST EDITION. "The first genuine advance in architectural illustration seems to have been made by Serlio, and his Libro Terzo set the type of architectural illustration in Italy for the rest of the century": Fowler 308; Mortimer, Harvard Italian 472; Berlin Kat. 2560.