Architettura civile demonstrativamente proportionata et accresciuta di nuove regole
Subtitle: con l'vso delle quali si facilita l'inventione d'ogni dovuta proportione nelli cinque ordini, e col ritrovamento d'vn nuovo strumento angolare, si da il modo à gl'operarij medesimi di pratticamente stabilire le sacome in ogni loro necessario contorno
By: opera di Carlo Cesare Osio P.M. ; nuovamente composta, à beneficio commune
Contributors: Fiori, Cesare, 1636-1702; Bonacina, Giovanni Battista; Anisson, Jacques, 1643?-1714; Posuel, Jean, 1644?-1725?; Rigaud, Claudem fl. 1684-1694?
Publisher: Appresso Anisson, Posuel e Rigaud
Published: 1686
Place of publication: In Milano e si vende in Lione
Language: ita
Number of pages: 406
Subjects: Architecture -- Early works to 1800.; Architecture -- Orders -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Architettvra civile demonstrativamente proportionata et accrescivta di nvove regole
Notes: Reissue of the Milan ed. of 1661.

Engraved frontispiece, port. of author by G.B. Bonacina after Cesare Fiori. Engraved in-text ill. of the 5 orders. Numerous woodcut in-text diagrams, the blank spaces of which are filled with fleurons, arabesques, or other small ornaments. Grotesque and floriated initials, tail-pieces.

Signatures: + A-3D 3E.

Includes index.

Binding: old sprinkled calfskin, tooled in gilt. Edges sprinkled red.

Bookplate recording purchase by Bernard Quaritch from the Sunderland Library, Blenheim Palace, in Nov. 1882. Giovanni Muzio's etched bookplate by Giacomo Manzù, now covered with photoreproduction lacking the names.