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CATANEO, Pietro (d.1569). I Quattro Primi Libri di Architettura. Venice: sons of Aldus Manutius, 1554.
2° (344 x 227mm.). Printer's device on title and verso of final leaf, woodcut initials and illustrations, some full-page. (Title supplied from another copy, some light spotting and browning, wormtrack at inner blank margins of leaves M1 to the end.) Contemporary boards (backstrip defective, hinges repaired, stitching weak).
FIRST EDITION of Cataneo's important work on architecture. The first book discusses the siting and laying out of cities and fortifications; the second deals with building materials; the third outlines the principles of church architecture; the last book gives plans for palazzi. Fowler 82; Mortimer, Harvard Italian 113; Renouard p.159.
2° (344 x 227mm.). Printer's device on title and verso of final leaf, woodcut initials and illustrations, some full-page. (Title supplied from another copy, some light spotting and browning, wormtrack at inner blank margins of leaves M1 to the end.) Contemporary boards (backstrip defective, hinges repaired, stitching weak).
FIRST EDITION of Cataneo's important work on architecture. The first book discusses the siting and laying out of cities and fortifications; the second deals with building materials; the third outlines the principles of church architecture; the last book gives plans for palazzi. Fowler 82; Mortimer, Harvard Italian 113; Renouard p.159.