Alberti (Leon Battista) L'Architettura, second folio
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Alberti (Leon Battista) L'Architettura [and La Pittura], translated and edited by Cosimo Bartoli, 2 parts in 1, collation: a-z6, aa-dd6, ee-ff4, gg6, first title with woodcut printer's device recto and portrait of the author recto, 3 woodcut plates, including 1 double-page of the Baths of Diocletian, woodcuts within text, most full-page, second title with woodcut printer's device, some spotting or light foxing, occasional light staining, 20th century vellum, gilt spine in compartments, folio (333 x 219mm.), Mondovi, Leonardo Torrentino, 1565.
⁂ Second folio edition of Bartoli's translation and the second edition (first to be issued with L'Architettura) of Lodovico Domenichi's translation of La Pittura.
Literature: Fowler 8; Cicognara 375; Millard IV, 6; Mortimer, Italian, 12.
⁂ Second folio edition of Bartoli's translation and the second edition (first to be issued with L'Architettura) of Lodovico Domenichi's translation of La Pittura.
Literature: Fowler 8; Cicognara 375; Millard IV, 6; Mortimer, Italian, 12.
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Alberti (Leon Battista) L'Architettura, second folio
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