Lot 339
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POZZO, Andrea (1642-1709). Perspectiva Pictorum et Architectorum pars prima [-- pars secunda]. Rome: Antonio de Rossi [and Giacomo Komarek Boëmo], 1700-1702. 2 parts in one volume, 2° (419 x 272mm). Text in Latin and Italian, woodcut device on title-pages, engraved frontispiece to both parts, 221 engraved plates, including one large folding plate by Arnoldus van Westerhout. (Occasional minor dust soiling.) Contemporary sprinkled calf gilt, red speckled edges (upper joint split at head and foot but firm, lower edges lightly rubbed, corners slightly bumped, lower cover rubbed to fore-edge). Provenance: Charles Francis Massingberd-Mundy (bookplate at Gunby Hall, Lincolnshire).
POZZO, Andrea (1642-1709). Perspectiva Pictorum et Architectorum pars prima [-- pars secunda]. Rome: Antonio de Rossi [and Giacomo Komarek Boëmo], 1700-1702. 2 parts in one volume, 2° (419 x 272mm). Text in Latin and Italian, woodcut device on title-pages, engraved frontispiece to both parts, 221 engraved plates, including one large folding plate by Arnoldus van Westerhout. (Occasional minor dust soiling.) Contemporary sprinkled calf gilt, red speckled edges (upper joint split at head and foot but firm, lower edges lightly rubbed, corners slightly bumped, lower cover rubbed to fore-edge). Provenance: Charles Francis Massingberd-Mundy (bookplate at Gunby Hall, Lincolnshire).

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POZZO, Andrea (1642-1709). Perspectiva Pictorum et Architectorum pars prima [-- pars secunda]. Rome: Antonio de Rossi [and Giacomo Komarek Boëmo], 1700-1702. 2 parts in one volume, 2° (419 x 272mm). Text in Latin and Italian, woodcut device on title-pages, engraved frontispiece to both parts, 221 engraved plates, including one large folding plate by Arnoldus van Westerhout. (Occasional minor dust soiling.) Contemporary sprinkled calf gilt, red speckled edges (upper joint split at head and foot but firm, lower edges lightly rubbed, corners slightly bumped, lower cover rubbed to fore-edge). Provenance: Charles Francis Massingberd-Mundy (bookplate at Gunby Hall, Lincolnshire).

FIRST EDITION OF PART II, SECOND EDITION PART I, the latter being revised and enlarged. Including the large folding plate of the ceiling of San Ignazio, Rome, by Arnoldus van Westerhout (1651-1725), often missing and the highlight of this work. Fowler 251; RIBA 2608.

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