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VITRUVIUS POLLIO (MARCUS)
De architectura libri decem... nunc primum in Germania qua potuit diligentia excusi, 3 parts in one vol., Strasbourg, in Officina Knoblochiana per Georgium Machaeropioeum, 1543

11 November 2015, 13:00 GMT
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VITRUVIUS POLLIO (MARCUS)

De architectura libri decem... nunc primum in Germania qua potuit diligentia excusi, 3 parts in one vol., numerous woodcut illustrations (some full-page), short tear to blank area of title, light dampstain at fore-margin of opening quarter of book but generally clean, seventeenth century calf, red page edges, rubbed with old paper label on spine [Adams V906; Berlin Cat. 1806; Cicognara 707; Fowler 401], small 4to (192 x 126mm.), Strasbourg, in Officina Knoblochiana per Georgium Machaeropioeum, 1543

Footnotes

The first edition of Vitruvius printed in Germany, the text edited by Walther Hermann Ryff, and the plates based on those of the Como edition of 1521.

Provenance: William Hythall, ownership inscription dated 1668 on front free endpaper; Hopetoun Library, bookplate.

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