De Architectura Libri Decem Cum Notis Castigationibus Observationibus Guilielmi Philandri

by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Joannes De Laet

$2,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Bound in full calf, spine with raised bands forming seven compartments, lettered gilt in the second compartment, elaborately tooled gilt in other compartments A significant 17th-century edition of Vitruvius’ De Architectura, edited and annotated by Joannes de Laet, preserving and expanding upon the only surviving architectural treatise from antiquity. The present work is a significant edition of De Architectura, the only surviving architectural treatise from

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