Lot 116
Niccola Zabaglia (1664-1750), Castelli e ponti...con alcune ingegnose pratiche, e con la descrizione del trasporto dell'obelisco Vaticano, 1743, first edition, folio (19 in. x 14 in.), full vellum, title and dedication in Latin and Italian, portrait of Zabaglia, with 54 engraved plates, many fold-out (4 double-page), by Vasi, Specchi and others after Rostagni and Fontana Provenance: Henry Southeran Limited, Antiquarian Booksellers, London, 1994. Note: A fundamental work both in the building history of St. Peter's and more generally, for the study of early engineering. Showing the restoration of buildings and of engineering in the 18th c, the volume is nearly the only one to give an aspect to the technical construction of the great buildings of Rome. It also depicts the moving of the obelisk of Augustus.
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