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Alberti, Leon Battista (1404-1472) L'Architettura di Leon Battista Alberti Tradotta in Lingua Fiorentina da Cosimo Bartoli.
Venice: Apresso Francesco Franceschi, Sanese, 1565.
First quarto edition, a reprint of Cosimo Bartoli's 1550 translation in a more portable format, including a new dedication to Cosimo de' Medici, mentioning that the 1550 edition is no longer available; title printed within elaborate baroque compartment; illustrated throughout with text woodcuts, 3 woodcuts on leaves extraneous to collation: 2 full-page, 1 folding; bound in 17th century Dutch parchment, possibly a reimboitage; (large section of loss to parchment repaired on front board); housed in a custom clamshell box; 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.
