Lot 3764: Serlio, Sebastiano (1475-1554). , Il primo libro d'architettura... Le premier livre d'architecture... mis en langue françoyse, par Iehan Martin (Il secondo libro di perspettia... le second livre de perspective...). Paris: (Jehan Barbé for) the

folio (379 x 250mm.), ff. [4], 74, f.24 a blank, text in Italian and French, illustration : title within woodcut border, woodcut initials and diagrams, replacement diagram pasted to b5 verso, woodcut plate, binding : seventeenth-century vellum, title-leaf slightly soiled, plate repaired at foredge (not affecting image), binding slightly worn

Fowler 303; Mortimer, Harvard French 492

inscription on flyleaf (partly deleted) dated 1652

first edition of Serlio's treatises on geometry and perspective (including scenography), published during his time as architect to François I. These later became books I-II of his five books on architecture; see Macclesfield Science P-Z, lot 1870, for a volume containing books I-V.