VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Marcus. I Dieci Libri dell'Architettura ... tradotti & commentati da Mons. Daniel Barbaro ... hora in piu commoda forma ridotti, Venice: appresso Francesco de'Franceschi Senese, & Giouvanni Chrieger Alemano Compagni, 1567, 4° (240 x 165mm.), woodcut title border, 2 folding woodcut plates, woodcut illustrations, some full-page, and initials (title slightly thumb-soiled, occasional marginal staining), contemporary vellum, covers ruled in gilt, spine with raised bands lettered and decorated in gilt, early shelf marks to front pastedown. [BL Italian Books 1465-1600 p. 735; Brunet V, 1330; Cicognara 717; Fowler 410]

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VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Marcus. I Dieci Libri dell'Architettura ... tradotti & commentati da Mons. Daniel Barbaro ... hora in piu commoda forma ridotti, Venice: appresso Francesco de'Franceschi Senese, & Giouvanni Chrieger Alemano Compagni, 1567, 4° (240 x 165mm.), woodcut title border, 2 folding woodcut plates, woodcut illustrations, some full-page, and initials (title slightly thumb-soiled, occasional marginal staining), contemporary vellum, covers ruled in gilt, spine with raised bands lettered and decorated in gilt, early shelf marks to front pastedown. [BL Italian Books 1465-1600 p. 735; Brunet V, 1330; Cicognara 717; Fowler 410]

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AN ATTRACTIVE COPY of the quarto edition of Barbaro's Italian translation of Vitruvius, with a reduced copy of the title-page border of the Marcolini edition, Venice, 1556 [Fowler 407]. The plates are for the most part the same as those in the Latin edition of 1567 [Fowler 409].

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