Vitruvius Pollio.

Estimate

4,000 - 5,000 GBP

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Description

De architectura traducto di Latino in Vulgare [by Francesco Lucio Durantino] dal vero exemplare con le figure. (Venice: Giovanni Antonio and Pietro Niccolini da Sabbio, March) 1524

folio (311 x 212mm.), title in red and black within a woodcut border, woodcut initials and illustrations, modern brown morocco with title and illustration (modelled on one of the woodcuts in the book) in bas-relief on upper cover, ownership inscription erased from foot of title-page, binding slightly rubbed

Literature

Censimento 16 CNCE 32343; BAL RIBA 3520; Fowler 398; Sander 7998

Catalogue Note

The first Italian translation of Vitruvius was issued three years previously in 1521 and this edition "is best described as a marriage of the text of Cesarino's translation of 1521 with the woodcut illustrations of Giocondo's edition of 1511" (BAL RIBA, p.2299).