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GUARINI, Guarino (1624-1683). Architettura Civile. Turin: Gianfrancesco Mairesse, 1737.
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GUARINI, Guarino (1624-1683). Architettura Civile. Turin: Gianfrancesco Mairesse, 1737.
First complete edition, edited by Bernardo Vittone, with the extensive text accompanying the plates.
Folio (420 x 260 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece of the author, large woodcut arms of Savoy on title, 79 engraved plates by Guarini, Abiati, Guenotto, Verga and Fayneau, uncut (some light staining at beginning and end, light darkening to plates). Contemporary limp boards (some minor rubbing and staining). Fowler 150.
The plates were first published without text in 1686, three years after Guarini’s death. “The definitive edition of 1737… contains a few additional plates, on geometry and columns, and an extensive text… Guarini was the only one among Italian architects to learn the great lesson from French mathematicians, introducing it in his chapter on the ‘Ortografia gettata,’ where he explains the significance of the new geometry. The new geometry was the basis for Guarini’s audacious buildings” (Millard). Berlin Kat. 2620; Cicognara 810; Millard Italian 50.
First complete edition, edited by Bernardo Vittone, with the extensive text accompanying the plates.
Folio (420 x 260 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece of the author, large woodcut arms of Savoy on title, 79 engraved plates by Guarini, Abiati, Guenotto, Verga and Fayneau, uncut (some light staining at beginning and end, light darkening to plates). Contemporary limp boards (some minor rubbing and staining). Fowler 150.
The plates were first published without text in 1686, three years after Guarini’s death. “The definitive edition of 1737… contains a few additional plates, on geometry and columns, and an extensive text… Guarini was the only one among Italian architects to learn the great lesson from French mathematicians, introducing it in his chapter on the ‘Ortografia gettata,’ where he explains the significance of the new geometry. The new geometry was the basis for Guarini’s audacious buildings” (Millard). Berlin Kat. 2620; Cicognara 810; Millard Italian 50.