Lot 3830: Vignola, Giacomo Barozzi da (1507-1573). , Regola delli cinque ordini d'architettura. Venice: Francesco Ziletti, 1582 , ff. 32, illustration : engraved title-page, engraved plates numbered ff. 4-32

Regnard, Valeriaen. [Praecipua urbis templa. Rome, c. 1650 ], 38 engraved plates (including dedication, some plates folding, the last plate double-page and folding) depicting churches and buildings (mostly in Rome), the dedication leaf showing Sixtus V ordering the building of the Vatican library, ?lacking title-page and two plates 2 works in one volume, folio (399 x 283mm.), binding : eighteenth-century vellum-backed blue boards, boards scraped

1st work: Fowler 352; BAL RIBA 3447, no. 5 in the list of editions; not in Censimento 16; 2nd work: BAL RIBA 4084

Vignola's treatise was originally published in 1562. For a later edition, see Macclesfield Science P-Z, lot 2053. The Regnard contains 9 plates unrecorded by the BAL RIBA catalogue: a folding one containing a plan of the Palazzo Reale in Naples, 3 of the church of S. Andrea in Rome, 3 of the Gesù, one of the doorway of the Palazzo Farnese at Caprarola, and the double-page folding one of the Palazzo Reale in Naples (signed by Domenico Fontana, June 1606). However, it also lacks the plate of the external view of St Peter's and the folding plate of the church of S. Ignazio (nos [2] and [4] in the BAL RIBA list). The plate depicting the plan of the church of S. Ignazio has the title in the early state, and the two missing plates were apparently the latest in date, so this copy (like that in the National Art Library) could well have been put together earlier than the putative date of 1650. ICCU records one copy of this work in Modena with 21 leaves of plates, also without any sort of title-page. Regnard's work on astrolabes (Rome, 1610) was part of lot 1406 of Macclesfield Science I-O.