I Dieci Libri Dell'Architecttura (The Ten Books of Architecture)
by Vitruvius
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Waccabuc, New York, United States
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About This Item
Venice: Francesco Maredini, 1556. Vellum. Very Good. Andrea Palladio. Translated and with a Commentary by Daniele Barbaro. Venice: Francesco Maredini, 1556. 132 woodcut illustrations and diagrams, 11-line woodcut initials, numerous 6-line initials, later parchment over contemporary vellum. 1st edition of Barbaro's translation and commentatry, with illustrations by Andrea Palladio (1508-1580) and possibly Guiseppe Porta Salviati (1520-1575) and Giovanni Antonio Rusconi (1520-1579). Barbaro's edition "is widely considered to be the most significant Italian edition of the treatise, the illustrations provided by Andrea Palladio, among others, are the most persuasive architecture illustrations associated with the Vituvian text". (Millard). Folio, armorial bookplate of Peter Delme Esq. to the front pastedown. Light, forgiveable soiling at the panels, loss of 40% of the spine's parchment, vellum beneath bright and clean. Decorative mottled edges, all plates crisp and attractive.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Appledore Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22004
- Title
- I Dieci Libri Dell'Architecttura (The Ten Books of Architecture)
- Author
- Vitruvius
- Illustrator
- Andrea Palladio
- Format/Binding
- Vellum
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Francesco Maredini
- Place of Publication
- Venice
- Date Published
- 1556
- Keywords
- rare architecture, rare Vitruvius, rare Palladio, Vitruvius's Ten Books of Architecture
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture;
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Appledore Books, ABAA
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Waccabuc, New York
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