[20] pp. Title-pages in Latin & Italian; text in Latin, Italian, French & German. Elaborate engraved title-page devices. With 16 copper-engraved plates, 7 of them double-page, 2 of them folding out. (folio) 41.5x29 cm. (16½x11½"), period full morocco with large & elaborate gilt-tooled lozenge at the center of each cover within gilt rules, gilt-decorated pastedowns, all edges gilt. First Edition.

Scarce work on the planned and executed landscaping and buildings which the Roman architect Francesco Giovianni Guerniero (1655-1745) undertook for the Landgrave Karl at the German city of Cassel (now Kassel). The engravings show plans, elevations and details as well as overall views of various buildings, gardens, waterfalls, grottos and pavilions in elaborate Baroque style. OCLC/WorldCat lists only fourteen copies, seven of them in the United States. The most recent copy to sell at auction, according to American Book Prices Current, was in 1989.