[Rarebooks] For Sale: 18th Century Treatise on Art and Architecture

[Norman Kane]

[MILIZIA, FRANCESCO.]  DELL' ARTE DI VEDERE NELLE BELLE ARTI DEL 
DISEGNO SECONDO I PRINCIPII DI SULZER E DI MENGS, OPERA CONSACRATA. 
A. S. E. IL SIGNOR FEDERIGO FOSCARI, SENATORE AMPLISSIMO.   Venezia: 
Pietro Q. Gio. Batta Pasquali, 1798. Octavo, half vellum with marbled 
boards, 142 pages.  A well-preserved copy of a scarce edition (OCLC 
locates only 4 copies in the US. )  Name, W. Hutchinson, on end 
paper; author's name written on title.  1 - inch tear in one leaf (no 
loss.)   (Painting, sculpture, architecture, &c.  Milizia, architect, 
theoretician, author and curator, was a 
neoclassicist.)       $225.00     (Trade Discount 10%.)

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