£1,260
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 725
Auction: 8 February 2023 at 10:00 GMT
Cum notis ... Guilielmi Philandri ... Danielis Barbari ... Claudii Salmasii ... Praemittuntur Elementa architecturae ... ab ... Henrico Wottono ... Accedunt Lexicon Vitruvianum Bernardini Baldi ... et Eiusdem Scamilli Impares Vitruviani. De pictura ... Leonis Bapistae de Albertis. De Sculptura ... Pomponii Gaurici ... Ludovici Demontiosii Commentarius de Sculptura et Pictura ... Omnia in unum collecta, digesta et illustrata a Joanne de Laet. Leiden: apud Ludovicum Elzevirium, 1649. Folio (30.9 x 19.5cm), contemporary English panelled calf, rebacked, [8] 30 [2] 252 [30] 253-272 164 69 [3] pp., engraved allegorical title-page, numerous woodcuts in the text, repairs to corners of boards, endpapers renewed, small faint stain to first few leaves [Cicognara 726; Willems 1097]. Together with 2 others (John Weever, Ancient Funerall Monuments, 1631, first edition, folio, contemporary calf, engraved frontispiece and additional architectonic title-page, woodcuts in text, several full-page, bound without index, frontispiece laid down, closed tear in A4, marginal repair to 2A3; and Horace Walpole, Anecdotes of Painting in England, Strawberry Hill Press, 1765, second edition, volume 1-3 of 4, volume 4 published later, in 1771, 4to, contemporary calf, engraved plates)
Note: A 'magnificent edition' of Vitruvius (Willems), containing extensive commentary and additional texts including the first edition in Latin of Henry Wotton's Elements of Architecture.