Barbaro, Daniele Architecture - Barbaro, Daniel - The Practice of Perspective Venice, Camillo and Rutilio Borgominieri, at the Sign of St. George, 1568. In 2nd. Title within xylographic border enclosing first two words and xylographic printer's mark, repeated at 2B6v., italic typeface, 220 xylographic illustrations and diagrams, 23 full-page, one double-page, xylographic headpieces with three-dimensional geometric shapes and xylographic initials, reddening and marginal halos, coeval binding in flinty vellum, extremely genuine copy. Manuscript possession note to title page, 16th cent.

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