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SCAMOZZI, Ottavio Bertotti. Il forestiere istruito delle cose piu' rare di architettura e di alcune pitture della citta' di Vicenza. Vicenza: Giovambattista Vendramini Mosca, 1761.
4°. Engraved title-vignette, portrait and 36 plates, mostly folding. (Portrait and 2 plates very lightly browned.) But otherwise a good copy in early 19th-century calf-backed sprinkled boards, gilt spine, yellow edges. Provenance: Girolamo Caratti of Udine (signature on an endpaper).
FIRST EDITION of an excellent guide to Vicenza arranged as a dialogue over a two-day visit to the city. Not in Cicognara.
4°. Engraved title-vignette, portrait and 36 plates, mostly folding. (Portrait and 2 plates very lightly browned.) But otherwise a good copy in early 19th-century calf-backed sprinkled boards, gilt spine, yellow edges. Provenance: Girolamo Caratti of Udine (signature on an endpaper).
FIRST EDITION of an excellent guide to Vicenza arranged as a dialogue over a two-day visit to the city. Not in Cicognara.