SERLIO. Sebastiano. - Lot 315

SERLIO. Sebastiano. Regole generali di Architectura. In Venetia. [for Giovanni-Battista and Melchiore Sessa. circa 1559-1562]. 74 ff. Bound with : Quinto Libri d'Architecttura. In Venetia appresso Gio. Battista et Marchio Sessa fratelli. 1559. 18 ff. Collection of 2 works bound in 1 in-folio volume, modern parchment, smooth spine with ink title. 1. Fine early edition in Italian of Book IV, devoted to the Five Orders of Ancient Architecture, illustrated with a title frame and 127 compositions, some forty of which are full-page. A few marginal stains, small tear affecting the engraving on leaf MM1. 2. Second edition in Italian of Book V, devoted to sacred architecture, illustrated with a title and 29 compositions, 2 of them full-page Extensive russeting on all pages, a few ink marks on the date of the colophon. early manuscript bookplate: este libor es de el pader don Juan Ramires religioso de la Cartuga del Paular. Another early hand has inscribed below: "mientes q[ue] no es tu l[ibro]", i.e. "you lie, this is not your book".