Bartoli, Del modo di misurare le distantie, Venice, 1564, later half calf

Cosimo Bartoli

Del modo di misurare le distantie, le superficie, i corpi, le piante, le provincie, le prospettive, & tutte le altre cose terrene, che possono occorrere a gli huomini. Venice: Francesco de' Franceschi, 1564

4to (223 x 164mm.), title within woodcut border, woodcut portrait of the author on A2, woodcut initials, woodcut illustrations, 2 folding woodcut plates, early nineteenth-century calf-backed boards, flat spine gilt, occasional light staining, a few leaves frayed at lower corner (not affecting text), inscription crossed through on title-page, binding slightly rubbed

FIRST EDITION of Bartoli's treatise on instruments and methods for measuring by sight, based on the Protomathesis of Oronce Fine and Dürer's Underweysung der Messung, which Bartoli had translated into Italian.

LITERATURE:

Edit16 4299; Mortimer, Harvard Italian 45; Riccardi i, 90