[Saggio dell' architettura civile in generale]
Contributors: Bibiena, Ferdinando Galli, 1657-1743
Publisher: publisher not identified
Published: 1740
Place of publication: Milano?]
Language: ita
Number of pages: 226
Subjects: Architecture; Orders; Early works to 1800; Notebooks, sketchbooks; Renaissance Architecture
Notes: An abridged version, in mss., of a pseudonymous work by Laudromo Sitinio published before 1743.

Title page blank with inked mss. border.

16 drawings within inked border accompany text passages, with mss. captions to match text hand.

Pages 211-226 by a 2nd hand are a bibliographic essay on Italian and French architectural works; the latest cited is 1739.

Date suggested by internal evidence and author's use of Sitinio 1st ed.

Includes "Proporzione degli ornamenti delle porte e finestre secondo il Bibiena".

Watermark: BMO(?) below coat of arms with shield surmounted by coronet; not in Heawood or Briquet.