Lot 30: SERLIO, Sebastiano (1475-1554).Tutte l'opera d'architettura.Venice: Heirs of Francesco de' Franceschi, 1600.

SERLIO, Sebastiano (1475-1554). Tutte l'opera d'architettura. Venice: Heirs of Francesco de' Franceschi, 1600. 4° (237 x 167 mm). Title with woodcut printer's device, 7 divisional titles each within an elaborate architectural border, numerous woodcut illustrations, many full-page, some double-page. (A few leaves trimmed closely affecting catchword, a few marginal tears or repairs, book 7 H4 with corner torn away affecting a few letters, book 7 P3 torn.) 17th-century vellum, using a 17th-century manuscript charter in Latin (worn, book block loose exposing binding structure and manuscript). Second collected edition of the seven books. "Sebastiano Serlio is one of the four Renaissance authors, with Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Andrea Palladio, and Vincenso Scamozzi, who surpassed in importance Vitruvius and his sixteenth-century commentators" (Millard). Book 7, in both the first and second editions, is dedicated by the printer to Vincenzo Scamozzi, and the index was prepared by Vinvenzo's father, Giovanni Domenico Scamozzi. The illustrations of Book I-V and Estraordinario are from the same blocks as those of the 1584 and the Venice 1566 quarto edition, those in Book VII are reduced copies of the Venice 1575 folio edition. See Mortimer Italian 477; Berlin Kat. 2572; Fowler 334.; Millard Italian 128.