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Alberti, I dieci libri de l'architettura, Venice, 1546, modern half vellum

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ALBERTI, LEON BATTISTA. I dieci libri de l'architettura di Leon Battista de gli Alberti fiorentino, huomo in ogni altra dottrina eccellente, ma in questa singolare; da la cui prefazione brevemente si comprende la commodità, l'utilità, la necessità, e la dignità di tale opera, e parimente la cagione, da la quale è stato mosso a scriverla: Novamente da la Latina ne la volgar lingua con molta diligenza tradotti. Venice: Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1546


THE FIRST ITALIAN TRANSLATION of Alberti's architectural treatise, by Pietro Lauro of Modena.


8vo (165 x 110 mm). Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. Collation: *8 **4 a-z8 A-H8: 260 leaves (with blank leaf **4). Woodcut Valgrisi device on title-page and on final verso, woodcut initials. (Title-page slightly worn and frayed with loss of a letter of the title, occasional light foxing or staining, blank lower corner of v1 defective.)


Binding: Modern half white pigskin (171 x 117 mm) over marbled paper boards, spine with neat manuscript lettering.


Provenance: Antonio Bonini, early signature at foot of title-page — Franz Pollack-Parnau (of Vienna, 1903-1981), bookplate. Acquisition: Purchased in 1990 from Marlborough Rare Books, London. References: BAL RIBA 51; Edit16 720