Lot 313: BASSI, MARTINO (1542-1591).

Dispareri in materia d'architettura et perspettiva. Brescia: [V. da Sabbio for] F. & Pie Maria Marchetti, 1572

Condition Note: 4to (205 x 150mm.), 53, [3]pp., last leaf blank, illustration : device on title and p. [54], 12 engraved plates, binding : contemporary French calf, blind-stamped fillet on covers with gilt fleuron corner-pieces and small central motif, spine gilt, slightly rubbed

IA 114.653; BAL RIBA 219; Mortimer, Harvard Italian 46; Berlin Catalogue 2600

[Sir] Thomas Knyvett of Ashwellthorpe (1539-1618) with signatures and motto, see D. McKitterick, The library of Sir Thomas Knyvett (1978), no. 914

first edition. There was a Milan reprint in 1771.