Architettura civile
Guarino Guarini, 1737
GUARINI, Guarino (1624-1683). Architettura civile. Edited by Bernardo Vittone. Turin: Gianfrancesco Mairesse, 1737.

First complete edition of an important work on baroque architecture, with the extensive text accompanying the plates. The plates were first published without text in 1686, three years after Guarini’s death. The present edition contains a few additional plates and the explanatory text based on Guarini’s manuscript, here edited by the Italian architect Bernardo Vittone. Fowler 150; RIBA 1391.

Folio (360 x 245mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece of the author; large woodcut arms of Savoy on title; 79 engraved plates by Guarini, Abiati, Guenotto, Verga and Fayneau (some spotting and browning to plates, a few short tears along folds). Contemporary vellum (hinges broken but holding). Provenance: Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune (bookplate).