ROSSI, Giuseppe Ignazio La Libreria mediceo-laurenziana : architettura di Michel Agnolo Buonarruoti. 1739 Tartini, folio, half shagreen (corners rubbed, sl. bumped), cloth on covers (some stains), spine on 5 raised bands (joints rubbed, starting to...
Estimation :
150 / 200
Adjudication :
200 €
Description
split, [36 incl. front.]-xxxiii-[1 bl.]-22 pl. (some browning and spotting limited to the margins, lacking portrait of Rossi, first dedic. leaf repaired).
First ed. of Rossi's study of Michelangelo's Laurentian Library, one of his most important architectural achievements. Engr. ill. : coat-of-armes on title (1739), title vign. on the other (1755), frontisp., 22 pl. (some double page, pl. xvi-xviii in copy), headpieces and initials. Titles in red and black. The copy contains a 2nd title of the ed. 1755 (designating vol. 4 part 2 of collected work). Bookpl. A.E. Richardson.
First ed. of Rossi's study of Michelangelo's Laurentian Library, one of his most important architectural achievements. Engr. ill. : coat-of-armes on title (1739), title vign. on the other (1755), frontisp., 22 pl. (some double page, pl. xvi-xviii in copy), headpieces and initials. Titles in red and black. The copy contains a 2nd title of the ed. 1755 (designating vol. 4 part 2 of collected work). Bookpl. A.E. Richardson.
