CAPRA, Alessandro (ca. 1610-1683). La nuoua architettura famigliare...diuisa in cinque libri corrispondenti à cinque ordini, cioè toscano, dorico, ionico, corintio, e composito. Bologna: per Giacomo Monti, 1678. 4° (207 x 142mm). Additional woodcut general title, woodcut subtitles for the five books, portrait, 2 folding plates and numerous illustrations, many full-page, with the final blank. (A few leaves at beginning and end lightly discoloured.) Contemporary vellum (2 small repairs in spine).
FIRST EDITION of this interesting and important book which deals, inter alia, with gardening, building, geometry, agronomy, hydraulics and various machines and mechanical instruments, many invented or rediscovered by the author. At the end are the two letters by Sigismondo Ponzi concerning hydraulics. Riccardi I 234; Vinciana 4347 'Un libro importante ed assai ricercato; rara ediz.orig.'; Cicognara 461; Olschki Choix VI, 6260 'Première édition fort rare'.
CAPRA, Alessandro (ca. 1610-1683). La nuoua architettura famigliare...diuisa in cinque libri corrispondenti à cinque ordini, cioè toscano, dorico, ionico, corintio, e composito. Bologna: per Giacomo Monti, 1678. 4° (207 x 142mm). Additional woodcut general title, woodcut subtitles for the five books, portrait, 2 folding plates and numerous illustrations, many full-page, with the final blank. (A few leaves at beginning and end lightly discoloured.) Contemporary vellum (2 small repairs in spine).
FIRST EDITION of this interesting and important book which deals, inter alia, with gardening, building, geometry, agronomy, hydraulics and various machines and mechanical instruments, many invented or rediscovered by the author. At the end are the two letters by Sigismondo Ponzi concerning hydraulics. Riccardi I 234; Vinciana 4347 'Un libro importante ed assai ricercato; rara ediz.orig.'; Cicognara 461; Olschki Choix VI, 6260 'Première édition fort rare'.
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