CALDERARI, Ottone. (1730-1803) - Disegni e scritti d'architettura. Vicenza: Paroni, 1808-1815 [il vol. II Venezia: ...

CALDERARI, Ottone. (1730-1803) - Disegni e scritti d'architettura. Vicenza: Paroni, 1808-1815 [il vol. II Venezia: tipografia di Alvisopoli, 1817]. Detailed and only graphic proof of the architect Calderari, a follower of Palladio active in the Veneto region and remembered as one of the major Italian neoclassical architects. 2 volumes, elephant folio (535 x 386mm). 90 fine plates after Barbieri, Doria, Brunello, Fadiga and Pigazzi engraved by Rossi, Dall'Acqua and Mugnon, with blanks (a hole in the inner margin at the beginning of the text in vol. I, small martinal clean tear at plate XXI, few occasional spots to margins of some plates, light occasional soiling). Contemporary half calf, covers in marbled paper, green and red labels on spine, marbled endpapers (some rubbing and scuffing).