The architecture of A. Palladio; in four books. Containing a short treatise of the five orders, and the most necessary observations concerning all sorts of building: as also the different construction of private and publick houses, High-Ways, Bridges, Market-Places, Xystes, and Temples, with their Plans, Sections, and Uprights. Revis'd, design'd, and publish'd by Giacomo Leoni, a Venetian, Architect to His Most Serene Highness, the Late Elector Palatine. Translated from the Italian original. The third edition, corrected. With notes and remarks of Inigo Jones: Now first taken from his Original Manuscript in Worcester College Library, Oxford. And also, An appendix, containing the Antiquities of Rome. Written by A. Palladio. And a Discourse of the fires of the Ancients. Never before Translated. In two volumes.

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  • The architecture of A. Palladio; in four books. Containing a short treatise of the five orders, and the most necessary observations concerning all sorts of building: as also the different construction of private and publick houses, High-Ways, Bridges, Market-Places, Xystes, and Temples, with their Plans, Sections, and Uprights. Revis'd, design'd, and publish'd by Giacomo Leoni, a Venetian, Architect to His Most Serene Highness, the Late Elector Palatine. Translated from the Italian original. The third edition, corrected. With notes and remarks of Inigo Jones: Now first taken from his Original Manuscript in Worcester College Library, Oxford. And also, An appendix, containing the Antiquities of Rome. Written by A. Palladio. And a Discourse of the fires of the Ancients. Never before Translated. In two volumes.
  • Quattro libri dell' architettura. English
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Imprint
London: printed for A. Ward, in Little-Britain; S. Birt, in Ave-Mary-Lane; D Browne, without Temple-Bar; C. Davis, in Pater-Noster-Row; T. Osborne, in Gray's-Inn; and A. Millar, against St. Clement's Church in the Strand, M.DCC.XLII. [1742]
Publication year
1742-1742
ESTC No.
T22367
Grub Street ID
246179
Description
2v.,plates : ill.,port. ; 2⁰
Note
Titlepage in red and black.

Includes: 'Appendix. The antiquities of Rome. By Andrea Palladio To which is added, a discourse of the fires of the ancients'.

Translated from the Italian by N. Dubois.