Lot 390: BOSBOOM, SIMON (1614-1662).

A brief and plain description of the five orders of columns of architecture, viz. Tuscan, Dorick, Ionick, Roman and Corinthian, with their architraves, friezes and cornishes (sic)... according to... Vincent Scamozzi. London: Robert Pricke, 1676

Condition Note:

folio (318 x 194mm.), ff. [48] (many printed on one side only), illustration : woodcut device on title, typographical headpieces, 27 engraved illustrations, binding : contemporary calf, flat spine gilt, morocco lettering-piece, binding rubbed

BAL RIBA 332; Harris 801; Wing B3778

A printed slip has been pasted over the imprint, changing the printer's address from "Adjoyning to Cripple-Gate within" to "at the Ball in St. Paul's Church-yard", and with the date "167" (sic), to which a "9" has been added in manuscript.