1513 VITRUVIUS ILLUSTRATED antique POST-INCUNABULA rare 16th CENT. architecture

Description: [Architecture] [Vitruvius]. Vitruvius iterum et frontinus a' locundo revisi repurgatique quantum ex collatione licuitFlorence: Philippi de Giunta, October; 1513 Second edition of the first illustrated Vitruvius. Size 4 by 6" ff. (v), 187; 2-34, (i.e. 24).; a1 of second part misbound after fourth text leaf at front. Edited by Giovanni Giocondo. Title-page within woodcut border, printer's device on verso of C8, and illustrated with 140 in-text woodcut illustrations, and numerous wood-cut initials. Full brown straight grain morocco, ruled in blind, decorated in gilt, sometime rebacked, worn; all edges gilt; armorial book-plate of Michaelis Tomkinson on front paste-down; ownership signature, dated 1948, on front free endpaper; hinges repaired- BAL RIBA 3492; Edit16 28727; Sander 7695; Brunet V: 1327; Fowler 394; Cicognara 697 -text in Latin========================================Second edition of the first illustrated Vitruvius. Edited by Giovanna Giocondo, the first edition was published two years earlier, in 1511. This edition is the first pocket-sized printing, and is expanded with the inclusion of Frontinus’s treatise on aqueducts, as well as the inclusion of four woodcuts not featured in the first edition.=================================Vitruvius (c.?80–70 BC – after c.?15 BC) was a Roman architect and engineer during the 1st century BC, known for his multi-volume work titled De architectura.As the only treatise on architecture to survive from antiquity, it has been regarded since the Renaissance as the first book on architectural theory, as well as a major source on the canon of classical architecture.It is not clear to what extent his contemporaries regarded his book as original or important.He states that all buildings should have three attributes: firmitas, utilitas, and venustas ("strength", "utility", and "beauty"), principles reflected in much Ancient Roman architecture. His discussion of perfect proportion in architecture and the human body led to the famous Renaissance drawing of the Vitruvian Man by Leonardo da Vinci.Little is known about Vitruvius' life, but by his own description he served as an artilleryman, the third class of arms in the Roman military offices. He probably served as a senior officer of artillery in charge of doctores ballistarum (artillery experts) and libratores who actually operated the machines.As an army engineer he specialized in the construction of ballista and scorpio artillery war machines for sieges. It is possible that Vitruvius served with Julius Caesar's chief engineer Lucius Cornelius Balbus.Vitruvius' De architectura was well-known and widely copied in the Middle Ages and survives in many dozens of manuscripts, though in 1414 it was "rediscovered" by the Florentine humanist Poggio Bracciolini in the library of Saint Gall Abbey. Leon Battista Alberti published it in his seminal treatise on architecture, De re aedificatoria (c.?1450). The first known Latin printed edition was by Fra Giovanni Sulpitius in Rome in 1486. Translations followed in Italian, French, English, German, Spanish, and several other languages. Though any original illustrations have been lost, the first illustrated edition was published in Venice in 1511 by Fra Giovanni Giocondo, with woodcut illustrations based on descriptions in the text. Bramante, Michelangelo, Palladio, Vignola and earlier architects are known to have studied the work of Vitruvius, and consequently it has had a significant impact on the architecture of many European countries.=================================Please see my other auctions Thank You Refund Policy: We will issue a FULL REFUND, 100% money back if you are not satisfied with your purchase. Items must be returned to us within 20 days in order to receive a refund or replacement. Buyer is responsible for shipping costs. Powered by SixBit's eCommerce Solution

Price: 3140 USD

Location: New Hope, Pennsylvania

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