VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Marcus. De architectura libri decem, edited by Guillaume Philandrier, Lyons: Jean de Tournes, 1552, 4°, printer's device to title, one folding letterpress table, woodcut illustrations and initials (title and a few other leaves lightly soiled, paper flaw to outer margin of title), old French calf (spine neatly restored), old ownership inscription to title. [Berlin Katalog 1813, Cicognara 712; Fowler 406]

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VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Marcus. De architectura libri decem, edited by Guillaume Philandrier, Lyons: Jean de Tournes, 1552, 4°, printer's device to title, one folding letterpress table, woodcut illustrations and initials (title and a few other leaves lightly soiled, paper flaw to outer margin of title), old French calf (spine neatly restored), old ownership inscription to title. [Berlin Katalog 1813, Cicognara 712; Fowler 406]

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Fowler: "First edition of the ten books of Vitruvius, with the commentary by Guillaume Philandrier, to be printed in France."

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