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December 17, 03:28 PM GMT
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800 - 1,200 EUR
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50 EUR
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VITRUVIUS POLLIO, MARCUS. M. L. Vitruvio Pollione di architettura dal vero esemplare latino nella volgar lingua tradotto, e con le figure a suoi luoghi con mirando ordine insignito. Anchora con la tavola alfabetica, nella quale facilmente si potra trovare la moltitudine de vocaboli a suoi luoghi con gran diligenza esposti, e dichiarati, mai piu da alcuno altro sin al presente stampato a grande utilita di ciascuno studioso. (Venice: Niccolò Zoppino, March) 1535
Second edition of Luci's text, which is predominantly based on the 1521 Cesariano translation. The illustrations are from the 1524 Sabio edition of Luci's Vitruvius.
Folio (300 x 207 mm). Roman type, 46 lines plus headline.
Collation: AA-BB6 A-N8 O6. Title-page in red and black within woodcut border, 136 in-text woodcuts, endleaves with early ink shelfmarks. (Slight browning and soiling, a few early leaves with slight dampstaining.)
Binding: Modern English calf blind-tooled in period style (282 x 208 mm), plain edges, retaining old pastedowns. (A few small marks to boards.)
Provenance: Sotheby's, 1 February 1988, lot 822. Acquisition: Purchased at the preceding sale. References: BAL RIBA 3521; Edit16 41155; Fowler 399; Mortimer, Harvard Italian 545