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CASTELL, ROBERT. The Villas of the Ancients Illustrated. 13 engraved plates, including 9 double-page or folding. [8], 128, [2] pages. Folio,
CASTELL, ROBERT. The Villas of the Ancients Illustrated. 13 engraved plates, including 9 double-page or folding. [8], 128, [2] pages. Folio, 484x344 mm, modern brown calf gilt with red morocco lettering piece, minor scratches on covers; some toning of text leaves, plates generally clean. London: for the Author, 1728
- Notes: first edition, published for 117 subscribers, of a monograph on the country houses of Pliny the Younger at Laurentinum and Tuscum and villas described in the writings of Varro and Columella, with the Latin text and English translation. "This work is considered the first attempt at the theoretical restoration of ancient buildings, and is said to have helped in the transition from the formal to the landscape garden"--Fowler 81. Colvin, page 202-03; Millard II, 11.
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