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(Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs, 9th October 2019) TWO VOLUMES, INCLUDING DU CHOUL, GUILLAUME DISCORSO SOPRA LA CASTRAMETATIONE ET BAGNI ANTICHI DE I GRECI ET ROMANI [Venice]: per Innocenzo Olmo, 1558. Small 8vo., with 43 engravings in the text and a folding plan in two parts of a Roman Camp at the end, contemporary vellum, rebacked, endpapers renewed, one or two annotations to the images in an early hand and one image outlined in ink, lacking the final blank leaf, with the book plate of John Bury, in a slip case, USTC 827777; Ligorio, Pirro Ichonographia Villae Tiburtinae Hadriani Caesaris olim a Pyrrho Ligorio delineata et descripta, postea a Francisco Continio ... recognita ..., nunc denuo affabre ære incisa, in elegantiorem ... formam redacta, addita expositione Latina.-Pianta della villa Tiburtina de Adriano Cesare, etc. Rome: ex typ. Apollinea, 1751. Folio, parallel text in Latin and Italian, two title pages in red and black with engraved vignettes, 2 folding engraved maps, modern quarter vellum, marbled boards, light water staining throughout (2)Provenance: From the Library of the Late John Bernard Bury Notes: Pirro Ligorio (c. 1512/1513 - 1583) was an Italian architect, painter, antiquarian, and garden designer during the Renaissance period. He worked as Papal Architect under Popes Paul IV and Pius IV, designed the gardens and fountains at Villa d'Este at Tivoli for Cardinal Ippolito II d'Este, which were greatly influenced by the nearby Villa Adriana which Ligorio had recorded, and served as the Ducal Antiquary in Ferrara. Ligorio emphasized and showed a deep passion for classical Roman antiquity