Architectura Recreationis… and Architectura Civilis…. and Architectura Privata

by Joseph Architecture. Furttenbach

$24,000 · Offered by Liber Antiquus

First edition

FIRST EDITIONS OF ALL THREE WORKS. A sammelband of three of Furttenbach's major architectural treatises. With 3 engraved frontispieces, printed titles in red and black, and a total of 89 folding plates of various sizes the largest of them 370 x 300 mm. showing residences, civic structures, palaces, churches, elaborate gardens and grottoes, pavilions, and theaters. All works with elaborate decorative woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative

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