Mar 09, 2017 - Sale 2438

Sale 2438 - Lot 4

Price Realized: $ 1,875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(ARCHITECTURE.) Vitruvius Pollio, Marcus. I Dieci Libri dell'Architettura. Italian translation and commentary by Daniele Barbaro. Title within woodcut architectural border with allegorical figures; full-page woodcut on verso of next leaf verso showing 2 figures amid classical ruins, repeated on recto of last leaf; double- and full-page woodcuts and text illustrations throughout, partly after Andrea Palladio, with full-page cancel woodcuts on pages 72 and 85; mounted extension flaps on pages 39, 69, 71, 78, cxxv, and cxxvii; and working volvelle pointer on page 228; lacks the 2 volvelle theater diagrams on V2v and V3r. 274 [i. e., 284], [18] pages, with cancel leaves B3.4. Folio, 408x275 mm, 18th-century vellum gilt, ink blot on spine, light stain on front cover; occasional browning and dark marginal stains with traces of mold and noticeable odor of mildew, marginal repairs on last 4 leaves minimally affecting text and woodcuts. sold as is. Venice: Francesco Marcolini, 1556

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first barbaro edition of the only surviving early work on Greco-Roman architecture, a Latin treatise written in the 1st century B.C. and first published circa 1486-87. "The 1556 Venice Vitruvius by Daniele Barbaro is widely considered to be the most significant Italian edition" (Millard). Fowler 407; Harvard/Mortimer-Italian 547; Millard IV, 161.