Prev / Next

Books, Autographs & Prints

Thursday 24 June 2021 e Friday 25 June 2021, 03:00 PM • Rome

115 Architettura

Caramuel Lobkowitz , Juan

[Architectura civil recta, y obliqua. Considerada y dibuxada en el templo de Ierusalen], 1678

Estimate

€ 4.000 - 6.000

Sold

€ 4.470

The price includes buyer's premium

Do you have a similar item you would like to sell?

Information

Vigevano, Corrado Camillo, 1678. In 2nd. The specimen is composed as follows: frontispiece part I engraved in copper, 8 plates no. A - H; title page Part II engraved, 70 plates and a blank card, title page Part IV, 3 text cards, 1 blank, 2 cards with the “Tabla General”; Frontispiece engraved “Templum Salomonis, dated 1678, followed by 43 plates; frontispiece Part III engraved, dated 1678, with 36 plates, table with full-page portrait of John of Austria, 51 leaves, pp. 71; 22 table cards; pp. 68; 2 cc. n.n., pp. 88, pp. 77, 5 cards, pp. 109, 4 cards, 8 plates missing, stains, blooms, browning, parchment binding of the time, on the back gusset with title in gold. On the counterplate there is a paper dowel with ex libris by "Horace Landau", on the title page stamp of possession of "& nbsp; Gustavo Camillo Galletti".

Specialist Notes

Rare copy edition of illustrious provenance, of the most ambitious Spanish architectural treatise to date, a provocative work in which the author argues for the superiority of "oblique" architecture over "straight" (Vitruvian) architecture , and & nbsp; censures Bernini's projects for the colonnade around St. Peter's Square, the staircase in the Vatican and the equestrian statue of Emperor Constantine.
The work is the first of eight publications published under the brand name "En la Emprenta Obispal por Camillo Corrado" (Typis Episcopalibus apud Camillum Conradam) in the Italian city of Vigevano, where Caramuel was bishop from 1673 until end of his life. & nbsp;