Guarino (Guarino)

Architettura Civile, FIRST EDITION, errata corrige, large woodcut arms of Savoy on title; 79 engraved plates by Guarini, Abiati, Guenotto, Verga and Fayneau (some spotting and browning to plates), lacking engraved portrait frontispiece of the author, light age yellowing, minor spotting, Kk paper flaw to right blank edge, contemporary vellum, soiled, marbled edges, [Fowler 150; Cicognara 526], folio, Giovanni Francesco Mairesse, Turin, 1737.

*** First complete edition of an important work on baroque architecture, with the extensive text accompanying the plates. The plates were first published without text in 1686, three years after Guarini’s death.