Rare multilingual edition of Vignola's Regola delli cinque ordini d'architettura, a classic account of the five orders of architecture, with the continuation (La ii parte) and Crispijn de Passe's related Oficina arcularia. Vignola (1507-1573), Italian painter, architect and theorist, "emerged in the 1550s as the leading architect in Rome after Michelangelo and was in papal service for over three decades. ... His Regola delli cinque ordini d'architettura (1562), a concise illustrated tract on the five orders, enjoyed immense popular and academic success throughout Europe and was the most influential book on classical architecture until the advent of Modernism" (Turtle).
The continuation, La ii parte dell architetura dell Vignola, shows partial elevations, sections and plans of Italian churches, views of altars, fountains, elevations of Dutch houses (some by Pieter Vinckebooms) and elevations of fireplaces and chimney-pieces, partly engraved by Crispijn I and II van de Passe. In some copies these plates are divided into 5 separately numbered series; here the plates were renumbered and rearranged so as to form one series of 42 plates. La ii parte is followed by De Passe's Oficina arcularia, showing designs for altars, tombs and monuments, partly already published separately in 1621. BAL believes the first series of these plates, numbered 1-28, to be part of the La ii parte dell architetura.
The three works are often found bound together and it seems that they were published together, but they were also sold separately. The make up differs from copy to copy and the publication history is complicated.
Some soiling and browning, gutter margin of title-page slightly damaged, a few leaves with marginal water stains, otherwise in very good condition. Binding soiled, spine and corners damaged, otherwise good and structurally sound. Ad 1: WorldCat (5 copies); not in BAL; Fowler; Millard; STCN; ad 2 & ad 3: BAL 3452; Fowler 362; Franken, Van de Passe 1357; ad 3: Hollstein XVI, p. 138, no. 174/II; STCN (5 copies, with only 42 plates); for Vignola: Turtle, "Vignola, Jacopo", in: Grove art online.