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The Architecture of A. Palladio; in Four Books... Revis'd, Design'd, and Publish'd by Giacomo Leoni... With Notes and Remarks of Inigo Jones: Now First Taken from His Original Manuscript in Worcester College Library, Oxford. And also, An Appendix, Containing the Antiquities of Rome. Written by A. Palladio. And a Discourse of the Fires of the Ancients. Never Before Translated
by PALLADIO, A
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London: Printed for A. Ward, S. Birt [et al], 1742.. Third edition. Two volumes. Folio. Recent quarter speckled calf over marbled boards, spines with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to two panels and decorated to the others. Two frontispieces, one allegorical and another a portrait, plus 230 illustrations over 207 plates - 16 folding, five of the folding and one of the full page plates in 20th century facsimile on non-matching paper. Very good.
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- Title
- The Architecture of A. Palladio; in Four Books... Revis'd, Design'd, and Publish'd by Giacomo Leoni... With Notes and Remarks of Inigo Jones: Now First Taken from His Original Manuscript in Worcester College Library, Oxford. And also, An Appendix, Containing the Antiquities of Rome. Written by A. Palladio. And a Discourse of the Fires of the Ancients. Never Before Translated
- Author
- PALLADIO, A
- Book Condition
- Used
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- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Printed for A. Ward, S. Birt [et al]
- Date Published
- 1742.
- Keywords
- Art Architecture
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- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About Bow Windows Bookshop
Bow Windows Bookshop has a large general stock of old and fine books and maps. Owned in partnership by Ric Latham and Jonathan Menezes, we buy and sell all manner of titles from early leatherbound volumes to modern first editions. We exhibit at bookfairs in the UK and North America and issue regular printed catalogues. Located in the beautiful county town of Lewes in the south-east of England, we are open six days a week. All our books are described as accurately as possible and we abide by the Code of Good Practice of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association
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