Sale 2457 - Early Printed Medical, Scientific & Travel Books, October 17, 2017

8 ● RUSCONI, GIOVANNI ANTONIO. Della Architettura. Title within woodcut historiated architectural border; woodcut illustrations throughout. [12], 143, [1] pages. Folio, 297x208 mm, early 19th-century 1 / 2 red straight-grain leather gilt, spine ends and cover edges rubbed; contents evenly browned, occasional light marginal dampstaining, dark stain and repair in blank lower inner corner of title, repaired clean tears in X1. Venice: i Gioliti, 1590 [2,000/3,000] FIRST EDITION , second issue, with errata on last page. Fowler 280; Harvard/Mortimer-Italian 551; Millard IV, 119. 9 ● SCAMOZZI, VINCENZO. L’Idea dell’Architettura Universale . . . Parte Prima [Seconda]. 3 double- and 39 full-page woodcut illustrations; 5 double- and 39 full-page engraved illustrations. [14] (of [16]), 90, [7], 96-128, 125-193, [2], 194-218, [4], 219-352, [34]; [12], 172, [4], 173-232, 235-279 [i. e., 269], [5], 271-370, [21] pages, including 2 engraved titles; lacks fly-title to book 1 in first volume. 2 volumes in one. Folio, 340x228 mm, 18th-century calf gilt, spine chipped at top, missing lower portion of bottom compartment; few small stains on A6 in second volume, contents otherwise generally quite clean. Venice: (GiorgioValentino), 1615 [3,000/5,000] FIRST EDITION . “The last, the longest, and the most ambitious of the Renaissance treatises on architecture”—Millard IV, 123. Fowler 292. ARCHITECTURE, continued 8 9