Palladio (Andrea) -- Scamozzi (Octave Bertotti): Les Thermes des Romains; Le Terme dei Romani, folio, Vicenza, 1785 [Fowler 234; Cicognara 599; Berlin Catalog 1877; Brunet IV 322], text in French and Italian, engraved frontispiece and 25 plates, 18 double-page (title and frontispiece lightly spotted), contemporary half calf (rubbed).
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Palladio (Andrea) -- Scamozzi (Octave Bertotti): Les Thermes des Romains; Le Terme dei Romani, folio, Vicenza, 1785 [Fowler 234; Cicognara 599; Berlin Catalog 1877; Brunet IV 322], text in French and Italian, engraved frontispiece and 25 plates, 18 double-page (title and frontispiece lightly spotted), contemporary half calf (rubbed).
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Scamozzi includes here the plan of the Baths of Agrippa, missing from Lord Burlington's first edition of 1730, having obtained it from the Tommaso Temanza, the biographer of Palladio.