ALBERTI, Leon Battista (1404-1472) - I dieci libri de l'architettura. Venice: Vincenzo Vaugis, 1546.
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ID 697974
Lot 195 | ALBERTI, Leon Battista (1404-1472) - I dieci libri de l'architettura. Venice: Vincenzo Vaugis, 1546.
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€ 300 – 500
First edition in Italian, and the only edition of this first Italian translation, by Pietro Lauro. "One of the most brilliant dilettantes that has ever lived, Leon Battista Alberti had a great visual capacity, a strong sense of beauty, and passionately believed that human dignity resides entirely in work" (Millard).
8vo (148 x 100mm). Printer's device at end, woodcut initials (title and some other leaf as y4 and y5 replaced with a contemporary fine manuscript copy, without blank 2*4, some light waterstaining and few small holes). Slighlty later vellum, manuscript title on spine and on top edge (minor staining). Provenance: Antonio Torris figlio del Sig. Torri, 1660 (ownership note on final leaf).
| Auction house category: | Books, manuscripts and engravings |
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