Lot 12: QUARENGHI, Giacomo (1744-1817). Fabriche e disegni . Mantua: fratelli Negretti, 1843[-1844]. 2 volumes in one, 2° (462 x 325mm). Engraved and etched portrait and 125 plates. (Light spotting, heavier to last few plates of vol. II, portrait with

QUARENGHI, Giacomo (1744-1817). Fabriche e disegni. Mantua: fratelli Negretti, 1843[-1844]. 2 volumes in one, 2° (462 x 325mm). Engraved and etched portrait and 125 plates. (Light spotting, heavier to last few plates of vol. II, portrait with tape repairs to verso, title lightly creased with tiny hole and old paper repairs to verso, lacking 2 preliminary leaves to vol. II including the title.) Contemporary quarter green roan over mottled paper-covered boards, vellum tips (extremities rubbed, joints splitting). Provenance: Bruno Hessling (Berlin bookseller's ticket).

'GIACOMO QUARENGHI WAS PROBABLY THE MOST INFLUENTIAL OF THE ARCHITECTS AND INTERIOR DESIGNERS BROUGHT TO RUSSIA FROM ITALY BY CATHERINE THE GREAT' (RIBA III, p. 1589). The present lot is the second edition of vol. I, which was published by Quarenghi's son, Guilio, and contains 59 plates, of which 31 are from Édifices construits à Saint Petersbourg (St. Petersburg, 1810), most of them reworked with French and English scales in addition to the original Russian. The second vol. is the FIRST EDITION WITH 66 PLATES after Quarenghi senior's drawings. RIBA 2677.