[Rarebooks] FS: Caesar's Commentaries w/42 plates by Palladio. Venice: 1598

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Caesar, Caius Julius. I COMMENTARI... CON LE FIGURE IN RAME... FATTE DA 
ANDREA PALLADIO... Venice: Girolamo Foglietta. 1598. 4to. (40),408pp.   Plus 42 
double-page copper engravings (including 2 maps), each with printed descriptions. 
Cont. limp vellum. Some occasional text foxing. One leaf with a paper flaw 
into the headline. Bookplate of Donald & Mary Hyde. Overall a lovely copy in its 
original binding.      $3,000.00 (trade discount allowed)
The second Palladio edition (the first is 1575) of the Italian translation of 
Caesar’s COMMENTARIES made by Francesco Baldelli. Mortimer, in Italian 16th 
Century Books at Harvard, notes that some of the copper plates were reworked 
for this second edition of 1598. See the Fowler Architectural Collection #237 
(the 1575 edition). Not in Adams and not in the BL Italian STC. In fact, the 
1598 edition is a much rarer book than the 1575 edition.

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