Leon Battista Alberti Architecture - Alberti, Leon Battista - De re aedificatoria Florence, Nicolaus Laurentius Alamanus, December 29, 1485. In 2nd ed. 267 x 207 mm. Paper a1r blank, a1v with dedication to Lorenzo de Medici, a2r beginning of text, X7v colophon, at end ode to the reader by "Baptista siculus," on verso registrum, 34 lines, Roman typeface, spaces of 6 and 7 lines with small guide letters, missing the eight-page fascicle K, restoration to the outer blank margin of the last paper containing the errata and to the lower margin of the first, otherwise FRESH EXEMPLARY. 19th-century binding in brown half-leather and cardboard, bonnets ruined. "Duplicate" specimen from the Trivulziana Library in Milan, as per its stamp affixed at the end of the volume.

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