Main entry:

Palladio, Andrea, 1508-1580.

Title & Author:

The four books of architecture / by Andrea Palladio ... ; literally translated from the original Italian, by Isaac Ware Esq. ; particular care has been taken to preserve the proportions and measures from the original, all the plates being engraved by the author's own hand.

Publication:

London : Printed for R. Ware ..., [after 1738]

Description:

[10], 110, [2] pages, 99 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, plans ; 44 cm

Notes:
Translation of: I quattro libri dell'architettura.
First issued in 1738 with title: The four books of Andrea Palladio's Architecture ... This issue, undated, has corrected the errors listed in the original errata list.
Added engraved t.p.: The four books of architecture by Andrea Palladio containing the 5 orders, and ye most necessary observations in building, private houses, streets, bridges, piazzas, xisti & temples. London : Published by Isaac Ware. Book 3 has special engraved t.p.
Text is paged continuously; plates are numbered separately.
Title in red and black.
(from t. p.) Book I. Containing the five orders, and the most necessary observation in building -- Book II. In which the designs of several houses ordered by him both within and out of the city are comprised, and the designs of the ancient houses of the Greeks and Latins -- Book III. Wherein the ways, bridges, piazzas, basilica's, and xisti, are treated of -- Book IV. Describing and figuring the ancient temples that are in Rome, and some others that are in Italy and out of Italy.

Subject:

Palladio, Andrea 1508-1580 I quattro libri dell'architettura
Architecture.
Architecture Orders.
Architecture Ordres.
Antiquities.
Architektur
Architekturtheorie
Rome Antiquities.
Rome Antiquités.
Rome (Empire)

Form/genre:

Quelle.
Treatises.

Added entries:

Ware, Isaac, 1704?-1766, translator.

Holdings:

Location: Library cage m 29689
Call No.: NA44.P164 (W1067)
Status: Available