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Cartographer :VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Marcus.

The first vernacular edition of 'De Architectura' by Vitruvius

VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Marcus.

Di Lucio Vitruvio Pollione de Architectura Libri Dece traducti de latino in Vulgare affigurati: Comentati: & con mirando ordine Insigniti: per il quale facilmente potrai trouvare la multitudine de lí soi loci & in epsa tabula con summo studio expositi & enucleati ad Immensa utilitate de ciascuo Studioso & benivolo di epsa opera.
Como: Gotardo da Ponte for Agostino Gallo and Aloisio Pirovano. 1521. Folio (400 x 270mm), full 16th century vellum; 192 leaves (8 unnumbered leaves, 183 leaves foliated I - CLXXXIII, final leaf with note and errata); printed title with elaborate woodcut vignette 117 woodcut illustrations and diagrams (10 full-page), printer's device (a smaller version of that for the title) on Z7 verso, errata and editor's note on Z8 recto, large historiated and foliated white-on-black initials throughout.

Stock ID : 20810

£47,000