Live auction - Lot 423

Cort Onderweys van de Vyf colommen.

BOSBOOM, Simon

€ 150 / 200

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Lot description

Amsterdam, P. H. Van Vreden, 1657

4to: 53 ff. (browning, min. foxing, bottom title page missing without loss of text, tear f. 15 repaired).

Contemp. limp vellum (rubbed, sl. worn).

First edition of the architectural treatise of the Amsterdam city architect Bosboom (1614-1668) on the Five Orders as a summarized version of Scamozzi's Architectura. Illustrated with 41 full-page engr. pl.
Ref. Fowler 43-44. - Cicognara 443. - STCN 308101251.