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BASSI, Martino. Dispareri in meteria d'architettura, et perspettiva. Brescia: [Vincenzo da Sabbio] for Francesco and Pietro Maria Marchetti, 1572.
4°. Publisher's dolphin device on title and G3v, woodcut cartouche headpiece on title, woodcut ornamental initials, 12 etched numbered plates of architectural plans and perspectives. (Text leaves lightly browned, very faint dampstain at lower edges.) Modern vellum.
FIRST EDITION of Bassi's objections to plans proposed by the architect Pellegrino Pellegrini for the Duomo in Milan. It contains letters from Palladio, Vasari, and Vignola discussing the plans. Adams B-371; Cicognara 423; Fowler 40; Mortimer, Harvard Italian 46.
4°. Publisher's dolphin device on title and G3v, woodcut cartouche headpiece on title, woodcut ornamental initials, 12 etched numbered plates of architectural plans and perspectives. (Text leaves lightly browned, very faint dampstain at lower edges.) Modern vellum.
FIRST EDITION of Bassi's objections to plans proposed by the architect Pellegrino Pellegrini for the Duomo in Milan. It contains letters from Palladio, Vasari, and Vignola discussing the plans. Adams B-371; Cicognara 423; Fowler 40; Mortimer, Harvard Italian 46.