VITRUVIO, Marco Pollione (c.80-70 B.C. - c.15 B.C.) - De Architectura edito da Francesco Lucio Durantino. Venice: Giovanni Antonio e Piero da Sabio, 1524.

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Lot 288 | VITRUVIO, Marco Pollione (c.80-70 B.C. - c.15 B.C.) - De Architectura edito da Francesco Lucio Durantino. Venice: Giovanni Antonio e Piero da Sabio, 1524.
VITRUVIO, Marco Pollione (c.80-70 B.C. - c.15 B.C.) - De Architectura edito da Francesco Lucio Durantino. Venice: Giovanni Antonio e Piero da Sabio, 1524.

Second Edition in Italian, and first Durantino edition. The 136 woodcuts 'are close copies of the full set of blocks from the Giocondo edition of 1511 printed at Venice by Giovanni Tacuino.

(300 x 214mm). Title printed in red and black within a woodcut frame, historiated woodcut initials, 136 woodcut illustrations and diagrams, some text in Greek (some wormholes, more consistent in the second half of the volume, small trace in the upper margin of the first leaves, occasional soiling, some foxing and light dampstaining). Backed in contemporary calf with blind-stamped decorations on wooden boards with metal clasps, name of the author manuscripted at the lower margin (expertly rebacked, later endpapers, some light rubbing, upper clasp damaged). Provenance: Giovanni Francesco Thaone (ownership inscription on final leaf) - Biblioteca imperiale dell'Ermitage (bookplate).
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