CANINA, Luigi (1795-1856). L'architettura antica descritta e dimostrata coi monumenti dall'architetto cav. Luigi Canina. Rome: Dai tipi dello stesso Canina, 1830-1844. Half-title, 1 section of text only (of 3), 1 corresponding volume of plates (of 3). 2° (500 x 365mm). Contents: Sezione I. 'L'architettura egiziana'. 203 numbered engraved plates, including 14 double-page maps. (Lacking section 2 and 3 of text and plates, half-title remounted, occasional light spotting, soiling and waterstaining.) Contemporary green half calf, metalpieces (extremities lightly rubbed).

CANINA, Luigi (1795-1856). L'architettura antica descritta e dimostrata coi monumenti dall'architetto cav. Luigi Canina. Rome: Dai tipi dello stesso Canina, 1830-1844. Half-title, 1 section of text only (of 3), 1 corresponding volume of plates (of 3). 2° (500 x 365mm). Contents: Sezione I. 'L'architettura egiziana'. 203 numbered engraved plates, including 14 double-page maps. (Lacking section 2 and 3 of text and plates, half-title remounted, occasional light spotting, soiling and waterstaining.) Contemporary green half calf, metalpieces (extremities lightly rubbed).

'Luigi Canina's is one of the most monumental antiquarian publications of the 19th century; it is still of the highest usefulness today' (Avery's Choice: Five centuries of great architectural books, edited by Adolf Placzek, New York: 1997, pp. 215-216 no. 310). The plates in section I include not only Egyptian but also Middle Eastern, Persian, Indian and Chinese architecture. Brunet I, 1539; García y García, Nova biblotheca pompeiana, p. 269 no. 2842; RIBA 536.