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PALLADIO, Andrea (1508-1580). Les Bâtimens et les Desseins de ... Palladio recueillis et illustrés par Octave Bertotti Scamozzi. Vicenza: Giovanni Rossi, 1786. 4 volumes, 2° (438 x 297mm). Text in French. Engraved title vignettes, portrait of Palladio and 208 plates (35 double-page) by Davido Rossi, Gaetano Testolini and others. (Outer margins of one double-page plate in vol.III shaved into black border, some spotting.) Second Scamozzi edition. Cf. Fowler 231 (first edition with text in Italian and French).
Les Thermes des Romains dessinées par ... Palladio et publiées de nouveau ... par ... Scamozzi. Vicenza: Francesco Modena, 1785. 2° (437 x 300mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece, one headpiece and 25 plates, 6 folding, 14 double-page, by Gaetano Testolini and Carlo Barrera. (1 folding plate torn and repaired at inner margin, 2 others shaved along upper margin with loss to plate number, light dampstain at upper inner margin.) FIRST SCAMOZZI EDITION. Cf. Fowler 234 (with text in Italian and French); Berlin Kat. 1877.
Together 5 volumes. Uniformly bound in 19th-century mottled calf, gilt, g.e. (Rubbed, joints weak, spines chipped at head and foot). Provenance: Baron Northwick (armorial bookplate). The second work is here bound as the fifth volume to Les Bâtimens, as is often the case. The works more usually include titles and text in both French and Italian. (5)
Les Thermes des Romains dessinées par ... Palladio et publiées de nouveau ... par ... Scamozzi. Vicenza: Francesco Modena, 1785. 2° (437 x 300mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece, one headpiece and 25 plates, 6 folding, 14 double-page, by Gaetano Testolini and Carlo Barrera. (1 folding plate torn and repaired at inner margin, 2 others shaved along upper margin with loss to plate number, light dampstain at upper inner margin.) FIRST SCAMOZZI EDITION. Cf. Fowler 234 (with text in Italian and French); Berlin Kat. 1877.
Together 5 volumes. Uniformly bound in 19th-century mottled calf, gilt, g.e. (Rubbed, joints weak, spines chipped at head and foot). Provenance: Baron Northwick (armorial bookplate). The second work is here bound as the fifth volume to Les Bâtimens, as is often the case. The works more usually include titles and text in both French and Italian. (5)