Sebastiano Serlio On Domestic Architecture; Different Dwellings From the Meanest Hovel to the Most Ornate Palace
New York & Cambridge: The Architectural History Foundation, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. 87 text pages. Folio, 36 x 26.5 cm. Includes 74 full page sepia plates from the "Sixteenth-Century Manuscript of Book VI in the Avery Library of Columbia University." Foreword by Adolf K. Placzek, Introduction by James S. Ackerman and Text by Myra Nan Rosenfeld. Ackerman notes, Serlio's were "the first printed books in which image rather than the word became the conveyor of information and style in the arts." Orig. brown cloth. Fine in slightly nicked, very good dust wrapper. Item #22578
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