De Architectura libri decem , M. Vitruuius per Iocundum solito castigatior factus cum figuris et tabula vt iam legi et intelligi possit

by Vitruvius, ca. 80 – 15 Bce, Marcus Vitruvius

$85,000 · Offered by Liber Antiquus

THE FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF VITRUVIUS, edited by the architect Fra Giovanni Giocondo. Text printed in Roman type, with a few words in Greek. The publisher’s orb and cross device appears on the penultimate leaf and in the illustration on leaf H5 verso. The text is illustrated with 136 woodcuts measuring from 52 x 128 mm. to 230 x 132 mm. These are diagrams, plans, architectural details, and illustrations of engineering machinery in use.

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