VITRUVIUS. L’architettura.Venezia, per li Turrini, 1641.
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Small 4to; Contemporary full vellum binding, title written on the spine; leaves 4 nn., 506; Nice titlepage within a frame, woodcut at full page at the leaf 4,
a lot of woodcut within the text for the most at full page on double page, illustrated initials.
RARE EDITION.
Barbaro, refined humanist friend of Bembo and Speroni, in this enterprise was able to lean on Palladio, who provided him with some sketches and drawings for completing the translation of the annexed tables. DAU: "Vitruvius embodies the humanist ideal of universal education based sull'erudizione classic. For him, architecture, being the closest to the mathematical disciplines intended as a virtue related to the intellect, takes the utmost dignity ... "
Comolli I, 197; Brunet V, 1330; Graesse VII, 379; Studi e Documenti e documenti d’architettura, n. 8, pp. 92-93; DAU, I, 229-230; No in Fowler.
Nice specimen. Il lotto viene venduto provvisto di licenza d'esportazione.THE LOT IS OFFERED WITH A VALID EXPORT LICENCE
a lot of woodcut within the text for the most at full page on double page, illustrated initials.
RARE EDITION.
Barbaro, refined humanist friend of Bembo and Speroni, in this enterprise was able to lean on Palladio, who provided him with some sketches and drawings for completing the translation of the annexed tables. DAU: "Vitruvius embodies the humanist ideal of universal education based sull'erudizione classic. For him, architecture, being the closest to the mathematical disciplines intended as a virtue related to the intellect, takes the utmost dignity ... "
Comolli I, 197; Brunet V, 1330; Graesse VII, 379; Studi e Documenti e documenti d’architettura, n. 8, pp. 92-93; DAU, I, 229-230; No in Fowler.
Nice specimen. Il lotto viene venduto provvisto di licenza d'esportazione.THE LOT IS OFFERED WITH A VALID EXPORT LICENCE
