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VITRUVIUS Pollio, Marcus. L'Architettura... colla Traduzione Italiana E Commento Del Marchese Berardo Galiani. Naples: Stamperia Simoniana, 1758.
2° (400 x 270mm). Parallel text in Italian and Latin. Engraved frontispiece Francesco La Marra (repairs to lower margin), title vignette, headpiece and 25 plates by Francesco Cepparuli after designs by Berardo, woodcut tailpieces by Ignazio Lucchesini, initials and diagrams. (Outer blank margin of Ll4 torn and repaired, text to plate XXV with small tear at inner blank margin, some browning.) Contemporary half vellum (recased, later endpapers).
First edition of Galiani's translation and commentary. Fowler 424; Berlin Kat. 1820; Cicognara 733.
2° (400 x 270mm). Parallel text in Italian and Latin. Engraved frontispiece Francesco La Marra (repairs to lower margin), title vignette, headpiece and 25 plates by Francesco Cepparuli after designs by Berardo, woodcut tailpieces by Ignazio Lucchesini, initials and diagrams. (Outer blank margin of Ll4 torn and repaired, text to plate XXV with small tear at inner blank margin, some browning.) Contemporary half vellum (recased, later endpapers).
First edition of Galiani's translation and commentary. Fowler 424; Berlin Kat. 1820; Cicognara 733.