SCAMOZZI, Vincenzo (1552--1616)
[Idea della architettura universale. Books 3 & 6. French. 1736]
Oeuvres d'architecture de Vincent Scamozzi Vicentin, architecte de la republique de Venise, contenües dans son Idée de l'architecture universelle; dont les regles des cinq ordres, que le sixiéme livre contient, ont été traduites en François par Mr. Augustin Charles D'Aviler, ... et le reste a été traduit par Mr. Samuel du Ry, ... Avec les planches originales: le tout revü & exactement corrigé sur l'original Italien. ...
La Haye, chez Pierre de Hondt,, A 1736.
[16], 276 p., [25] pl. (2 fold.) : [44] wdcut, [41] engr. illus. ; 37.8 cm. (2°)

The French translation of Scamozzi's Idea della architettura universale (Venice 1615, q.v.) was first published in 1713 in Leyden by Pierre Vander Aa, who signed the dedication and whose catalogue of books, maps and engravings is printed on pages 274-276. The present edition is a reissue of the text and plates of the 1713 edition with the engraved title-plate omitted; it contains abridged translations of books 3 and 6, the illustrations from books 1--2 and 8, and additional woodcuts and engraved plates prepared for earlier Dutch editions. The engraved plates were drawn by Jan Goeree (1670--1751) and engraved by P. Sluyter and Jacob Baptist. BAL, Early printed books, no. 2920.

Copy Notes Inscribed in ink on half-title price 18 liv:'s / Wm Chambers, and in pencil -12-. With two sheets of Chambers's notes, one tipped in on front free end paper, the other a torn sheet loosely inserted. There is a marginal note in pencil by Chambers on page 199. Lot 139 in the sale of Chambers's library in 1796 bought by Chambers's grand-daughter, Mrs. Harmon (née James), who evidently sold it to Soane.

Binding C18th 'catspaw' mottled sheep, blind double-ruled borders, gilt-tooled spine, red morocco spine-label.

Reference Number 3271

Additional Names Chambers, Sir William (1723--1796); Harmon, Mrs.