Lot 5155: TROILI, GIULIO.

Paradossi per pratticare la prospettiva senza saperla, fiori, per facilitare l'intelligenza, frutti, per non operare alla cieca . Bologna: Giosesso Longhi, 1683. 3 parts in 1 volume; part 3 with separate title-page and pagination. +4, A-K6; [a]2, A4, B8, C4, E4, F2, E2, G4, H4. [8], 120; [4], 64 pp. Illustrated with 68 full-page woodcuts (including 1 repetition used as frontispiece) within borders, plus woodcut diagrams within text. Folio (298 x 200 mm). Later half vellum and decorative boards. Some very mild scattered toning/light spotting, corners a little rounded; near fine. Second edition, enlarged , with the first appearance of the third part. Very nice copy of an important textbook on perspective, with particular relevance to stagecraft. Troili was a scene painter for the Farnese theatre at Parma. Cicognara 866; Fowler 347. See illustration .