Vitruvius, De architectura libri decem, Florence, 1522, old calf

From the Library of Clayre and Jay Michael Haft

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

De architectura libri decem nuper maxima diligentia castigati atque excusi, additis, Iulii Frontini De aqueductibus libris propter materiae affinitatem. (Florence: heirs of Filippo Giunta, 27 October 1522)

8vo (159 x 90mm.), italic text, woodcut printer's device on title-page and final verso (otherwise blank), with penultimate blank leaf, woodcut illustrations, sixteenth-century calf with blind-stamped centrepiece, rebacked in tan leather with spine gilt in compartments and a red morocco lettering-piece, lacking quire k, first and last few leaves somewhat soiled, occasional light staining, binding somewhat rubbed, corners bumped, bound somewhat tightly

A reprint of the 1513 Giunta edition, using the same woodcut blocks.

LITERATURE:

Edit16 28778; Pettas, Giunti of Florence 188; Sander 7697

PROVENANCE:

[possibly from the W. Gedney Beatty bequest to the Metropolitan Museum of New York, bookplate tipped in before f.21 but this volume was not in the Christie's 2008 sale of Vitruvius editions from the Met]