GALLI BIBIENA - Direzioni ai giovani studenti- 125 engravings - 1731

(ARCHITECTURE; ILLUSTRATED) Ferdinando GALLI BIBIENA (1657-1743)
Direzioni a giovani studenti nel disegno dell’architettura civile. Nell’Accademia Clementina dell’Istituto delle Scienze, unite da Ferdinando Galli Bibiena, cittadino bolognese … Tomo Primo In Bologna, Nella Stamperia di Lelio della Volpe, 1731; Direzioni Della Prospettiva Teorica Corrispondenti a quelle dell'Architettura Istruzione a'giovani Studenti di Pittura, e Architettura Nell'Accademia Clementina Dell'Instituto di Scienze, raccolte da Ferdinando Galli Bibiena Cittadino Bolognese ... Tomo Secondo In Bologna, Nella Stamperia di Lelio della Volpe, 1731
§ 2 volumes, 8vo (174x100); [2], 168, [2] pp., 69 full-page engraved plates; [12], 13-159, [1] pp., 56 (full-page, some folding) engraved plates. Engraved head-and tail-pieces and initials. Contemporary vellum, title pieces on spines, marbled edges. Fine copy on crisp paper. The only copy offered on the market is listed at 2700 € . !!!
Second and definitive edition of Galli Bibiena’s general treatise on architecture, in a handly and reduced form for his students at the Accademia Clementina in Bologna, previously published in 1711 in folio under the title of L'architettura civile, preparata su la geometria e ridotta alle prospettive. In this edition a second part, dealing with perspective, is added. Thanks to the divulgative character, the reduced size and moderate price, the work found favour in a broader audience with regard to the 1711 folio edition and was reprinted several times. Divided in five parts, the first volume includes principles of practical geometry, the architectural orders according to Vitruvius, Serlio and Palladio, Galli’s own principles and the theory of architecture according to Vignola. The second volume, also divided in five parts, includes instructions for painters and achitects, for figurative painters, perspectve for theatre sets, the use of light and shadows and finally a chapter on mechanics, specifically about the transport of heavy objects from one place to another. Ferdinando Galli Bibiena was the most famous member of the Galli Bibiena family, which produced several renown architects and scenographers; he was first active in the service of the Duke of Parma, afterwards he entered the service of the Archduke Carl of Habsburg in Barcellona and followed him in Vienna when he was appointed Emperor of Austria.
 ANNA COSSIOLI Matroviti Galli Bibiena, Ferdinando In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani; RICCARDI I/1, 135; MILLARD Italian 46