Mar 08, 2018 - Sale 2468

Sale 2468 - Lot 12

Price Realized: $ 1,062
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
(ARCHITECTURE.) Vitruvius Pollio, Marcus. De architectura libri decem. With commentary by Daniele Barbaro. Woodcut illustrations throughout. [20], 375, [1] pages; lacks A5. Folio, 289x205 mm, contemporary limp vellum with spine title in ink, lacking ties, top of spine chipped, book block partly loose in binding; contents soiled with scattered foxing and stains, doodle of animal with human face on title, Plantin woodcut device mounted on blank verso of last preliminary leaf, 18th-century inscriptions on rear endpapers. Unidentified Oratorian branded ownership mark on top edges. Venice: Francesco De Franceschi & Johann Criegher, 1567

Additional Details

First edition with Barbaro's commentary in Latin. Harvard/Mortimer-Italian 550; Millard IV, 161.