Oct 17, 2017 - Sale 2457

Sale 2457 - Lot 11

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
VITRUVIUS POLLIO, MARCUS. Architettura. Con il suo Co[m]mento et Figure. Vetruvio in Volgar Lingua. Italian translation by Giovanni Battista Caporali. Woodcut illustrations throughout. [3], 131 leaves, including woodcut title. Folio, 282x210 mm, 18th-century sheep-backed marbled boards, short crack in front joint, cover corners worn through; varying foxing or browning, scattered marginal soiling and stains, blank lower outer corner off G2, modern owner's pencil notes on endpaper facing title. (Perugia: Giano Bigazzini, 1 April 1536)

Additional Details

first edition of this translation of the first 5 of the 10 books of Vitruvius. Fowler 400; Harvard/Mortimer-Italian 546; Sander 7700.