TEMANZA, Tommaso (1705-1789). Life of Jacopo Sansovino. Venice: Giacomo Storti, 1752 [WITH:] Vita di Andrea Palladio. Venice: Pasquali, 1762 [WITH:] Vita di Vincenzo Scamozzi. Venice: Pasquali, 1770. Volume containing the first editions of the three biographies of the most celebrated Venetian architects, later reissued together in Vite dei più celebri Architetti, e Scultori veneziani (1778). 3 works in one volume, 4to (280 x 210mm). Portrait of Sansovino drawn by Tommaso Arrighetti and engraved by Pietro Monaco; second work: frontispiece with portrait of Palladio engraved by Giambattista Brustolon, engraved figures in the text; third work: engraved frontispiece portrait of Scamozzi by Brustolon. Bound in contemporary carta rustica. (1)