Lot Essay
The title is within a reduced copy of the architectural woodcut border of the title page to the 1550 folio edition. The illustrations are also reduced and reversed copies of the same edition.
Architecture
ALBERTI, Leon Battista. L'Architettura ... tradotta in lingua Fiorentina da Cosimo Bartoli, Venice: Francesco Franceschi, Sanese, 1565, 4° (220 x 165mm.), title with architectural woodcut border, woodcut illustrations and initials (lacking one of 2 additional leaves with signature mark X, title cut short at lower margin slightly affecting border, some dampstaining, chiefly affecting preliminaries and end leaves, verso of Q4 with over half the text censored in pen, clean tear to one of the 2 additional plates with signature mark S), 18th-century vellum (lettering-piece torn with loss, extremities rubbed), author's name inscribed on lower fore-edge. [Adams A489; BL Italian Books 1465 to 1600 p. 15; Fowler 9: "the first quarto edition of Bartoli's translation"] With a French geometry notebook. (2)
Details
ALBERTI, Leon Battista. L'Architettura ... tradotta in lingua Fiorentina da Cosimo Bartoli, Venice: Francesco Franceschi, Sanese, 1565, 4° (220 x 165mm.), title with architectural woodcut border, woodcut illustrations and initials (lacking one of 2 additional leaves with signature mark X, title cut short at lower margin slightly affecting border, some dampstaining, chiefly affecting preliminaries and end leaves, verso of Q4 with over half the text censored in pen, clean tear to one of the 2 additional plates with signature mark S), 18th-century vellum (lettering-piece torn with loss, extremities rubbed), author's name inscribed on lower fore-edge. [Adams A489; BL Italian Books 1465 to 1600 p. 15; Fowler 9: "the first quarto edition of Bartoli's translation"] With a French geometry notebook. (2)