Vitruvius Pollio

M. Vitrvvii Pollionis De architectvra libri decem [engraved title]. De architectvra ... Cum notis, castigationibus & observationibus Gvilielmi Philandri integris; Danielis Barbari excerptis, & Clavdii Salmasii passim insertis. Præmittuntur Elementa architectvræ collecta ab ... Henrico Wottono ... Accedunt Lexicon Vitrvvianvm Bernardini Baldi Vrbinatis ... et ejusdem Scamilli Impares Vitrvviani. De pictvra libri tres absolutissimi Leonis Baptistæ de Albertis. De scvlptvra, excerpta maxime animadvertenda ex dialogo Pomponii Gavrici Neapolit. Lvdovici Demontiosii Commentarivs de scvlptra et pictvra. Cur variis indicibvs copiosissimis. Omnia in unum collecta, digesta & illustrata a Ioanne de Laet ...

[Amstelodami: apud Ludovicum Elzevirium], 1649. Folio, 4 preliminary leaves, 30, [2], 272, [28], 164, 69, [3] pages; lacking signature V (text pages 153-60 inclusive), but with no loss of illustration; engraved title page, numerous textual woodcuts throughout showing architectural elements, woodcut initials and ornaments; contemporary full calf, manuscript label on spine; first dozen leaves with ragged fore-edge (possibly on purpose to remove insect or water damage?) but without loss of text; all else very good and sound. Not in the Kraus Elzevier Catalog (no. 194); Copinger 4974; Willems 1097: "Magnifique édition, ornée de nombreuses figures sur bois dans le texte ... Elle a été imprimée à Leyde, par Fr. Hackius. On ne la recherche plus guère aujourd'hui, quoique les exemplaires en soient assez rares." Item #48687

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