PALLADIO Andrea. I quattro Libri dell architettura. Venice Dominico de Franceschi, 1570 (actually Venice 1767). 4 books in 1 vol. in-folio half cloth with handwritten title. Fine title-frontispieces, numerous illustrations in h.t. Ex-libris. Traces of wetness at the bottom of the pages of the first book. Binding faded but interior quite fresh. Interesting and beautiful 18th century reprint of Giambattista Pasquali's edition of one of the greatest architectural works of the Italian Renaissance, originally published in the same town in 1570. The original woodcuts are reproduced here on copperplate. A major work of world architecture. Ref : Brunet IV - 320-321