Author: SERLIO SEBASTIANO
Title: The first booke of architecture, made by Sebastian Serly, entreating of geometrie. Translated out of Italian into Dutch, and out of Dutch into English
Description: London, Printed [by Simon Stafford and Thomas Snodham] for Robert Peake, and are to be sold at his shop neere Holborne conduit, next to the Sunne Tauerne. 1611. Leather, Folio. Five parts, Collation, alternate pages numbered, part 1, 2 to 8 only, of 13, part 2, complete, [2],26,[1], part 3.[2]-2-28, lacking 29,30, then continuation from 31 through to 73, part 4, [4],3-28, lacking, 29,32,34,35, continuation through to 42, lacking 43, then 44 through to 71, book 5, 1-16, lacking 10,11. Colophon, last leaf recto, reads "Printed at London, by Simon Stafford. 1611. LACKING 19 LEAFS IN ALL. Book measures 35.5x26.cm. Bound in early full calf, raised bands. Calf heavily rubbed worn. Generally a good strudy binding. A few page trimmed or repaired on margins, a few minor small holes, a few pages bound slightly skew-wiff, other minor defects. Generally, text/illustrations in good condition. A good copy of a rare book.F.

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