Trattato di Teofilo Gallaccini sopra gli errori degli architetti ora per la prima volta pubblicato [with] Osservazioni di Antonio Visentini architetto Veneto che servono di continuazione al tratto di Teofil Gallaccini sopra gli errori degli architetti

Venice: Giambatista Pasquali. Good with no dust jacket. 1767-1771. First Edition. Disbound. Lacking front board. Rear pastepaper board present, with remnant of early marbled paper covering. Some dampstains to margins of leaves. Some waviness and wrinkles to leaves. Some leaves detached from sewing. Complete. ; Two titles bound together as one. Both titles collated and complete. First title ("Trattato"): xii, 81, [1] pages. 47 leaves. Includes 8 full page plates within the pagination. Folio. Page dimensions: 340 x 250mm. Bound with ""Osservazioni di Antonio Visentini architetto Veneto che servono di continuazione al tratto di Teofil Gallaccini sopra gli errori degli architetti" by Antonio Visentini. Venice: Giambatista Pasquali, 1771. vii, [1], 141 pages + 1 plate "La Perfezione" following the title leaf. 76 leaves (last leaf blank) + frontispiece. Includes 61 full page plates within the pagination. Folio. Page dimensions: 340 x 250mm. Text is in Italian. Provenance: Ex-libris Dr. Corrie McLachlan (New Zealand collector). Gallaccini (1564-1641) was a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Sienna. Gallaccini's manuscript was completed about 1625, but was not published until 1767. "[Gallaccini's] treatise on the errors of Mannerist and early Baroque architects became a point of departure for later theoreticians" - Encyclopedia Brittanica (online edition). "Antonio Visentini (1688 – 1782) was an Italian architectural designer, painter and engraver, known for his architectural fantasies and capricci, the author of treatises on perspective and professor at the Venetian Academy." - Wikipedia entry on Antonio Visentini. ; Folio .