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Condizione: Used: Very Good. SIGNED by author. VG+. Inscribed. Reitan, Nina (illustratore).

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 1st edition. 320 pages. 7.95x5.04x0.87 inches. In Stock. Reitan, Nina (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. One of the most influential architectural books ever published in Britain, Three Volumes, All FIRST editions (1715, 1717, & 1725), 230 engraved plans & elevations. 3 vols in half calf over worn marbled boards, vellum corners. Re-spined, to style, raised bands, gilt tooling & titles to morocco labels. Vol 1, 1715, engraved title & dedication leaves, [3], 4-10, 98 pls of 100 (includes 13 double page). Vol 2, 1717, engraved title page, [1], 2-8, 97 of 100 pls (20 doubles). Vol 3, 1725, [5] includes red & black ink letterpress title, 6-12 pp, 94 of 98 pls (15 doubles, 1 quad). Subscribers list with each Vol. 230 engraved plans & elevations only on 289 of 298 plates (includes 53 double-page & folding, + 1 quad pl). Vol 1, vertical crease to pl 89. Vol 2, plates 46 & 59 with ink splashes & specks, double-page plate of Longleat with repaired vertical closed tears and double-page plate 99/100 marked & dust-soiled. Vol 3, plates 89 & 90 mis-bound, occasional toning, dust-soiling and few marks. Text leaves in English only. Armorial bookplate of Lord Napier to upper pastedowns, front free endpapers with later ownership inscription 'Thomas Balbirnie, Architect & surveyor, Glasgow, 1846'. (V1-493*366. V2498*354. V3-491*361 mm). (Harris 97 & 99; Archer 32.1 & 33.1; Fowler 76. TP Connor). Vol 1 lacking double-page plate numbered 86/87 - Greenwich Hospital Double Pavilion to the river. Vol 2 lacking double-page plate numbered 73/74 - Cliveden House, & pl 93 - Dyrham House. Vol 3 lacking double-page plate numbered 3/4 - Greenwich Hospital in Perspective, and double-page plate numbered 5/6 - Castle Howard in Perspective. By taking part in the making of a lavishly illustrated book, Campbell established a method of self-promotion for an aspiring architect which was to last the century. Vitruvius Britannicus, a record of the principal private and public British buildings of the time, was prepared by a group of booksellers active in the print trade during 1714. At a fairly late stage in the preparation of this costly enterprise they appear to have employed Campbell to give a more up-to-date and specifically architectural slant to volumes which would otherwise have been of a more conventionally topographical character. Campbell was presented as the author on the title-page; he probably wrote the introduction as well as the brief text which accompanied the plates for each building. Most importantly, he was able to include many of his own (mostly unexecuted) designs. ODNB. Thomas Balbirnie (1816-1867) was an architect and surveyor. Thomas travelled to the United States in 1850 and was the architect for some several structures in the city of Baltimore, including the Madison Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church. CAMPBELL Ca. (illustratore).…

No binding. Condizione: Good. Octavo (175 x 110 mm.), recent quarter calf, marbled paper boards, spine with raised bands, blind ruled compartments with central bline floral stamp, gilt date and calf title. With typographic half title and title printed in red and black, pp. (24), 428, (3), with 16 copper engraved maps by Robert Morden, 2 leaves with margin repair, otherwise in good condition. Patrick Gordon's 'Geography Anatomiz'd' was first published in 1693. It proved a popular text being issued through 1754 in London utilising three different series of engraved maps. This first series included maps were engraved by Robert Morden (fl. 1669-d. 1703) and were first included in his own 'Geography Rectified'. Morden was a co-publisher of this work for the first three editions of 1693, 1699 and 1702. This is the fourth edition published in 1704 in which his name is removed from the title, the first issued following his death. The maps are apparently unaltered apart from the world map which now bears 'Page 86 & 87' in the small lower cartouche. This edition not in the British Library. From 1722 a new series of maps by John Senex were included and in 1754 the maps were by Emanuel Bowen. Burden (2007) 519; ESTC N7003; McCorkle (1994) 'The maps of Patrick Gordon's Geography Anatomiz'd': an eigtheenth-century success story', The Map Collector 66 pp. 10-15; McCorkle (2009)134; refer Shirley (2004) T.Gord 1a.…

, [20], 428 [4] pages, 16 folding maps, title page in red and black Fifth Edition , spine worn and cracked, boards rubbed at edges and corners, chips to leather, inscription to front pastedown, and owner's name to verso of half title, missing p155-158, p329-336, and p345-352, foxing and marking to pages, some creasing and tears to folds on maps, good condition , full calf, decorative borders front and rear , small quarto, 18 cm x 12 cm Hardback ISBN.…