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Vitruvius Pollio, Marcus.

[De Architectura libri X, latine]. Vitruvius iterum et Frontinus à Iocundo revisi repurgatique quantum ex collatione licuit. (On the last leaf :) Florence, Filippo Giunta1513. 8°. 4 unnum. Fol. 188 (fol. 187 wrongly foliated; fol. 144 double foliated), fol. 24 (fol. 34 wrongly foliated), fol. 24 unfol. Leaf (numbering of quires: [4], A-Z8, AA4; a-c8; A-C8). With a beautiful arabesque border on the title, 140 woodcuts in the text and a printer's mark on the last leaf. Rubricated throughout. Leather binding of the period on three bands, the covers with beautiful individual stamps and scroll stamps (interlacing; rose, dragon, star) and stroked lines, with an old brass buckle; the endpapers covered with fragments of a 13th century liturgical manuscript. (Upper joint cracked, old sewn repair on back cover, rubbed, one corner heavily chipped). Adams 903, Fowler 394, Berlin, Cat. d. Ornamentstichslg. Ornamentstichslg. 1799. edit 16 CNCE 28727. first pocket edition of the classical Roman text on all parts of architecture, the fifth ever, with the same woodcuts as those of the 1511 edition in folio, but with some corrections compared to that one. The editor, Fra Giocondo da Verona, proudly points out in his dedicatory letter to Giuliano de' Medici that he was able to significantly improve the text compared to the first three editions. Fra Giovanni Giocondo (1433-1515) was summoned to Paris by King Louis XII to design the Pont Notre-Dame - with two rows of 34 houses - and later Pope Julius Ii summoned him to Rome, where he was entrusted with working with Sangallo and Raphael on the new construction of St. Peter's Basilica. Fra Giocondo was an avid collector of old writings, for example he found a Caesar Codex in France, which he had printed in Venice. His edition of Vitruvius, first published in 1511, for which he drew the woodcuts himself, became groundbreaking for the entire Renaissance period. The woodcuts show column orders, ground plans, ideal figures, masonry techniques, but also machines, an organ, nautical machines, etc. Dampstaining throughout. The title page mounted on a paper strip in the fold. Some fingerstaining throughout. Old page markings removed. The title page and the last leaf dusty. Traces of worming in the first and last leaves and the endpapers. Both endpapers are covered with a fragment from a 13th-century liturgical manuscript with neumes on four-line staves, including the opening antiphon for the feast of St. Josaphat (Nov. 12; "Propter testamentum domini et leges paternas ."). The front inside cover with ownership inscriptions by Baron Per Hierta and Otto Smith.

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Vitruvius Pollio, Marcus.

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