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VITRUVIUS Pollio, Marcus (70-23 BC). De Architectura libri decem ... additis, I. Frontini de aqueductibus. Florence: heirs of Filippo Giunta, November 1522.
2 parts in one volume, 8° (162 x 98 mm). Woodcut printer's device on title and verso of last leaf, 140 woodcut illustrations. (Title and leaf S1 with small tear in paper edge, slight occasional spotting.) 17th-century vellum, manuscript title on spine (slightly soiled). Provenance: Nicolai Albisi? (manuscript inscription on title).
A new typesetting, in italic, of the 1513 Giunta edition, edited by the Dominican friar Giovanni Giocondo of Verona (1435-1515), an important figure among early Renaissance antiquaries. Vitruvius's celebrated work is followed by Julius Frontinus' De aquaeductibus urbis Romae, 'ouvrage. d'une grande utilité pour la connaissance de l'architecture ancienne' (Hoefer XVIII, 913). Adams V-904; Berlin Kat. 1800; British Arch. Lib. 3493; Camerini 172 (wrong collation); Cicognara 699: 'Questa edizione non è dissimile da quella del 1513., se non in quanto che gli errori nella prima..., sono in questa corretti.'; Fowler 396; Kristeller 435b; Sander 7697.
2 parts in one volume, 8° (162 x 98 mm). Woodcut printer's device on title and verso of last leaf, 140 woodcut illustrations. (Title and leaf S1 with small tear in paper edge, slight occasional spotting.) 17
A new typesetting, in italic, of the 1513 Giunta edition, edited by the Dominican friar Giovanni Giocondo of Verona (1435-1515), an important figure among early Renaissance antiquaries. Vitruvius's celebrated work is followed by Julius Frontinus' De aquaeductibus urbis Romae, 'ouvrage. d'une grande utilité pour la connaissance de l'architecture ancienne' (Hoefer XVIII, 913). Adams V-904; Berlin Kat. 1800; British Arch. Lib. 3493; Camerini 172 (wrong collation); Cicognara 699: 'Questa edizione non è dissimile da quella del 1513., se non in quanto che gli errori nella prima..., sono in questa corretti.'; Fowler 396; Kristeller 435b; Sander 7697.
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