Agostino Martinelli:

Descrittione di diversi ponti esistenti sopra li fiumi Nera, e Tevere con un discorso particolare della navitatione da Perugia a Roma.

Roma, Nicolò Angelo Tinassi, 1676. 4to. 20,5 x 15 cms. [8] pp. (including engraved frontispiece portrait of Pope Innocentius XI Odescalchi) + 60 pp. + 22 engraved plates, almost all folding, and one featuring the heraldic crest of the author.

Contemporary full vellum, slightly worn with some contemporary underlinings in ink, but a charming copy, complete with all plates, and a fine association copy bearing the recent round stamp and bookplate of Alexander Erba Odescalchi. Unidentified armorial stamp in lower margin of engraved portrait.

First edition of this scarce, beautifully illustrated architectural study of bridges.

(Together with:)

Julius Caesar Maria Capicius Anghillara:

Theoremata ex universa philosophia selecta atque elementa architecturae civilis et militaris quae sub auspiciis eminentissimi ac reverendissimi principis Antonii Mariae Erba Odescalco.

Roma, Zempel, 1762. 4to. 23,5 x 17,5 cms. 52 pp. + 14 folding plates of architecture.

Original patterned gilt wrappers, very worn. Main text in Italian. Dedicated to A. M. E. Odescalchi.

Covers the foundational principles of civil and military architecture.

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