Lot 3386: Bray, Salomon de. , Architectura moderna ofte Nouwinge van onsen tyt Bestaende in verscheyde soorten van gebouwen zoo gemene als bysondere, als Kercken, Toornen, Raedhuyse, Poorten, huyse, Graven... Amsterdam: Cornelis Dankerts, 1631 [i.e. 1641] , [4

Montano, Giovanni Battista (1534-1621). Raccolta de tempii, et sepolcri disegnati dall'Antico. Rome: Calisto Ferrante, 1638 , illustration : [30] engraved plates (including engraved title-page), lacking plate [17] according to BAL RIBA list, one plate torn and skilfully repaired 2 works in one volume, folio (357 x 223mm.), binding : eighteenth-century half calf, front flyleaf loose, joints cracking

1st work: Fowler 163; cf. BAL RIBA 1662 (first edition of 1631); 2nd work: BAL RIBA 2175; Fowler 200 (including the other four books)

Second edition of de Bray's work, with an extra leaf of text and two extra plates not found in the first edition. The plates are not exactly as described by Fowler; the double-page plates in this copy are nos III, XI, XIV and XXXVII. The unnumbered plate between nos XXXVII and XL is probably the same as the missing plate XXXIX, which depicts a monument to William the Silent. first edition of this collection of architectural plates by Montano, which later became one of the books of his Cinque libri di architettura.