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ALBERTI, Leon Battista (1404-1484). L'Architettura. Translated by Cosimo Bartoli. [With: La Pittura. Translated by Lodovico Domenichi]. Monte Regale (Mondovi): Lionardo Torrentino, August 1565.
2 parts in 1 volume, 2° (335 x 220mm.). Woodcut device on titles, woodcut portrait of Alberti on verso of first part title, numerous woodcut illustrations throughout, one double-page plan of the Baths of Diocletian and one plate of the design for the upper part of the tower illustrated on p. 217. (Lacking the design for the upper part of the tower illustrated on p. 216, occasional light spotting.) 18th-century mottled calf, spine gilt (hinges cracked, extremities slightly rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: Nathaniel Orr (bookplate and presentation inscription from Theodore Bellow, dated 1859).
First edition of L'Architettura to be issued with La Pittura, and the first folio edition of the latter work. This edition of L'Architettura uses the original woodblocks from the first edition of Bartoli's translation, which was published in 1550. Bartoli was a writer on geometry and perspective, and author of Del modo di misurare le distantie..., which was published in Venice in 1564. He translated Alberti's La Pittura into Italian in 1568. Fowler 8.
2 parts in 1 volume, 2° (335 x 220mm.). Woodcut device on titles, woodcut portrait of Alberti on verso of first part title, numerous woodcut illustrations throughout, one double-page plan of the Baths of Diocletian and one plate of the design for the upper part of the tower illustrated on p. 217. (Lacking the design for the upper part of the tower illustrated on p. 216, occasional light spotting.) 18th-century mottled calf, spine gilt (hinges cracked, extremities slightly rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: Nathaniel Orr (bookplate and presentation inscription from Theodore Bellow, dated 1859).
First edition of L'Architettura to be issued with La Pittura, and the first folio edition of the latter work. This edition of L'Architettura uses the original woodblocks from the first edition of Bartoli's translation, which was published in 1550. Bartoli was a writer on geometry and perspective, and author of Del modo di misurare le distantie..., which was published in Venice in 1564. He translated Alberti's La Pittura into Italian in 1568. Fowler 8.