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Amico, Giovanni - The Practical Architect, in which the rules for learning civil architecture are easily given, the work of Abbot Dr. Fr Giovanni Amico from Trapani

Palermo, in the printing house of Gio. Battista Aiccardo, 1726. In 2 °. Volume I only. Allegorical front door depicting a large press under which volumes of the work are imprinted, surrounded by winged cherubs, angels, cherubs, statues, all on the sides of a central fountain, on the second card a large effigy of the patriarch Gioachino, on the third card portrait in oval of Count Gioachino Fernandez Portocarrero, dedicatee of the work, 62 engravings in the text and out of text, some folded, including a series of portraits of the most famous architects from Vitruvius to Barozzi da Vignola, some marginal tears from some tables and papers, always without loss of text, small ink stains when cutting the last installments, small tears on the front counterplate, slight stains on the back, coeval binding in rigid parchment with title on the spine and on the plate, stains, slight lacks at the foot of the spine. On the counterplate handwritten ownership note by Pietro Zanconti of Rovereto, dated 20 September 1795.