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Guarini, Guarino Dissegni d'architettura civile et ecclesiastica inventati. - [Turin]. Guarini, Guarino. Dissegni d'architettura civile et ecclesiastica inventati. Turin, Domenico Paulino, 1686. In 2° (350 x 232 mm). Portrait of the author, frontispiece and 44 copper-engraved plates (portrait likely from another copy, few traces of use to white margin). Coeval bindings in bazzana with gilt friezes on spine, red boards (some peeling). First edition in the rarest variant printed by Paulino. Specimen enriched with 2 plates belonging to later editions of the work. The plates depict elevations and cutaways of the finest designs by Guarini, among the central figures of 17th-century Italian Baroque. The present work is regarded as the rarest architectural book that is related to Turin.
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Guarini, Guarino Dissegni d'architettura civile et ecclesiastica inventati. - [Turin]. Guarini, Guarino. Dissegni d'architettura civile et ecclesiastica inventati. Turin, Domenico Paulino, 1686. In 2° (350 x 232 mm). Portrait of the author, frontispiece and 44 copper-engraved plates (portrait likely from another copy, few traces of use to white margin). Coeval bindings in bazzana with gilt friezes on spine, red boards (some peeling). First edition in the rarest variant printed by Paulino. Specimen enriched with 2 plates belonging to later editions of the work. The plates depict elevations and cutaways of the finest designs by Guarini, among the central figures of 17th-century Italian Baroque. The present work is regarded as the rarest architectural book that is related to Turin.
