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RUSCONI, Giovanni Antonio (ca. 1520-1587). Della Architettura... con centosessanta figure dissegnate dal medesimo, secondo I precetti di Vitruvio, e con chiarezza, e brevità dichiarate libri dieci. Venice: Giovanni and Giovanni Paolo Giolito de' Ferrari, 1590.
2° (301 x 206mm). Title with woodcut allegorical architectural border, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces and 158 illustrations. (Neat repair to inner margin of title.) Late 19th-century boards.
FIRST EDITION, second issue with 11-line errata on verso of final leaf. Rusconi's woodcuts were begun as early as 1553 and were intended to illustrate a full translation of Vitruvius. The project remained unfinished at the time of his death in 1587 and the present work, with just a brief summary in Italian of Vitruvius's text, appeared in 1590. Adams R-960; Mortimer, Harvard Italian 551; Fowler 280; Cicognara 640.
2° (301 x 206mm). Title with woodcut allegorical architectural border, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces and 158 illustrations. (Neat repair to inner margin of title.) Late 19th-century boards.
FIRST EDITION, second issue with 11-line errata on verso of final leaf. Rusconi's woodcuts were begun as early as 1553 and were intended to illustrate a full translation of Vitruvius. The project remained unfinished at the time of his death in 1587 and the present work, with just a brief summary in Italian of Vitruvius's text, appeared in 1590. Adams R-960; Mortimer, Harvard Italian 551; Fowler 280; Cicognara 640.