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Lot 37

ITALY SERLIO (SEBASTIANO)
Il terzo libro... nel qual si figurano, e descrivono le antiquita di Roma, e le altre che sono in Italia, e fuori d'Italia, FIRST EDITION, [Venice, Francesco Marcolini, 1540]; Regole generali di architetturaa.. sopra le cinque maniere de gliedifici, second edition, Venice, Francesco Marcolini, 1540, 2 works bound in 1 vol.

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London, Knightsbridge

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First edition of Serlio's finely illustrated description of Roman antiquities in Italy and elsewhere. "The first genuine advance in architectural illustration seems to have been made by Serlio, and his Libro Terzo set the type of architectural illustration in Italy for the rest of the century" (Fowler).

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