The first [-fifth] Booke of Architecture - Serlio / Robert Peake - London 1611 archive (Drawings 28 x 38 cm

(Drawings 28 x 38 cm approx)

but was captured by the French on his return and was imprisoned on Mauritius

He was initially involved in publishing the Calcutta gazette in 1785

St Catherine

followed by 50 pages of supplementary material

The first [-fifth] Booke of Architecture - Serlio / Robert Peake - London 1611 archive (Drawings 28 x 38 cmThe first [ fifth] Booke of Architecture. Sebastiano Serlio and published by Robert Peake. London: by Simon Stafford and Thomas Snodham for Robert Peake, 1611 In Original Folio leather binding (with wear). 35 x 24cm. Missing the title page, folio 64 to book III, and with losses to last page. Otherwise complete. Collation: ii (of iii), 13; [i], 26, [1]; [i], 73 (missing folio 64); 71, [1]; 16 ff. The first English edition of Serlio's seminal work and