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. The third edition, corrected. With notes and remarks of Inigo Jones: Now first taken from his Original Manuscript in Worcester College Library, Oxford. And also, An appendix, containing the Antiquities of Rome. Written by A. Palladio. And a Discourse of the fires of the Ancients. Never before Translated. In two volumes.
- Palladio, Andrea, 1508-1580.
- Date:
- M.DCC.XLII. [1742]
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Quattro libri dell' architettura. English
Publication/Creation
London : printed for A. Ward, in Little-Britain ; S. Birt, in Ave-Mary-Lane ; D Browne, without Temple-Bar ; C. Davis, in Pater-Noster-Row ; T. Osborne, in Gray's-Inn ; and A. Millar, against St. Clement's Church in the Strand, M.DCC.XLII. [1742]
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2v.,plates : ill.,port. ; 20.
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ESTC T22367
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