I Dieci libri dell' Architettura. Venice, Francesco Marcolini, 1556. In-folio, half vellum with corners, smooth mute spine, jagged edges (18th century binding). Original edition of the translation by Daniele Barbaro (1514-1570), which was consulted throughout the 16th and 17th centuries.
The work is elegantly printed in Roman characters for the text and italics for the commentary.
It opens with a beautiful architectural title-frontispiece, followed by a large woodcut showing architects and their instruments, and 131 figures in the text, 8 double-page and 15 full-page. 6 engravings include cuffs and 3 volvelles.
This iconographic cycle was interpreted on wood by Giuseppe Salviati (1520-1575), known as the Younger, from drawings, some of which are by Palladio.
Some freckles and wetness, tear repaired in the margin of 3 ff., repair on f. 177. Notebook E has been bound between notebooks A and B.
Fowler, n°407 - Cicognara, n°713 - Mortimer, n°547.
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