The architecture of A. Palladio : in four books, containing a short treatise of the five orders, and the most necessary observations concerning all sorts of building : as also the different construction of private and publick houses, high-ways, bridges, market-places, xystes, and temples, with their plans, sections, and uprights / revis'd, design'd, and publish'd by Giacomo Leoni, a Venetian, architect to His most serene Highness, the late elector palatine ; translated from the Italian original ; in two volumes.

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Palladio, Andrea, 1508-1580 [Browse]
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Book
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English
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The second edition.
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London : Printed by John Darby for the author, and all the plates by John Vantack, 1721.
Description
2 v. in 1 : ill. (etchings), port. (etching with engraving), plans (etchings) ; 47 cm. (fol.)

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    • Translated by Nicholas Du Bois.
    • Port. of author designed by Veronese, etched and engraved by Bernard Picart.
    • List of subscribers follows title leaf.
    • Includes index.
    Binding note
    SAX copy: In contemporary English paneled calf.
    Provenance
    SAX copy: Bookplate of Sir William Strickland.
    Place name(s)
    England London.
    OCLC
    23621502
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