Lot 342: 

VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Marcus. I dieci libri dell'architettura. Translated and with a commentary by Daniele Barbaro (1514-1570). Venice: Francesco Marcolini, 1556.

2υo (408 x 284 mm). Title within woodcut historiated architectural border, 132 woodcut illustrations and diagrams (8 double-page, many full-page), 6 illustrations with woodcut overslips or extentions, two plates on theaters at end have duplicate revolving plates, 12 11-line woodcut initials, numerous 6-line initials, printer's device printed with the colophon within a scrollwork border, pasted canceled illustrations on E8v and F7r , B3 a cancel, Q2v without the pointer found in some copies. (Minor marginal staining.) 18th-century Italian vellum. Provenance: Count Camillo de Grassis (bookplate); acquired from E.P. Goldschmidt, 1964.

FIRST EDITION OF DANIELE BARBARO'S IMPORTANT TRANSLATION AND COMMENTARY WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY ANDREA PALLADIO.

Palladio (1508-1580) is mentioned by Barbaro in the text, stating that he did designs for the more important illustrations and helped to interpret the most difficult technical passages. The other woodcut illustrations are very likely by Giuseppe Porta Salviati (1520-1575) and Giovanni Antonio Rusconi (1520-1579). Barbaro's edition "is widely considered to be the most significant Italian edition of the treatise. The illustrations provided by Andrea Palladio, among others, are the most persuasive architectural illustrations associated with the Vitruvian text" (Millard). Berlin Kat. 1814; Brunet V:1330; Cicognara 713; Fowler 407; Harvard/Mortimer Italian 547; Millard Italian 160.

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