| | In Venezia nel, Negotio Remondini, s.d. [circa 1648], folio (39.8 X 26 cm - 15.7 x 10.2 inches), 40 engravings include the frontispiece (lack the platenumbered E1 and and the plate with the Bernini altar by Gio. Dolivar), three quater parchment with modern glued paper (later binding), free-end papers renewed. It is the reprinting of the edition of 1603 (see Fowler 354) called "worn Copy" (see Fowler 363) of the famous treatise of architecture, work of the theorist and the Italian architect Jacopo Barrozi da Vignola (Vignola 1507 - Rome 1573). The engraved title frontispiece page is with the portrait of Vignola who looks to the right. Between the portrait and "Con un ragionamento..." there is the engraved number 1259. There are 32 numbered plates [i-ii ], IIII-XXXII with elements of architectures. The other unnumbered plates represent decorative elements likes doors, mantels etc. The plate with the Bernini Baldaquin is put in place of the missing plate numbered E1. The plate have some corners worn or ruffled and along the margins, there are some stains or clear waterstains. Cft. Brunet V, 1219; Fowler, 363.
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