406. Ruggieri (Ferdinando) Scelta di Architetture Antiche Moderne della Citta di Firenze, 4 vol., engraved additional architectural titles, 5 title pages in red and black with vignettes, 3 portraits, folding map of Florence and 279 plates, a few plates with small areas of light browning, but still a crisp and clean copy , contemporary mottled calf with central gilt arms of Balthazar-Alexandre de Jarente, Marquis de Senas et d’Orgeval , spine in compartments, richly gilt and with double morocco labels, covers scuffed and repaired, rubbed, [Berlin Kat 2690], folio, Florence, Apresso l’Editore, 1755.
est. £5000 – £7000
A very good copy of this record of Florentine architecture. Volume 4 is in two parts and is a re-issue of the first monographs on two of Florence’s, and indeed the world’s most splendid buildings; Santa Maria del Fiore and the Laurenziana Library.