02728 Mattiuzzi Udine 1825-1830. 4 volumes in 8 parts. 4to. Altogether over 2200 pp., with 143 folding engraved plates. Modern half vellum with gilt titles on red spine labels, marbled boards. Old stamps on titles, some scattered foxing in the margins here and there, very nice and clean. * The best and most complete edition of the only surviving major book on architecture from classical antiquity, edited by by Poleni and Stratico, Polenis successor at the chair of mathematics at Padova University. It contains Vitruvius's 10 books of architecture with critical commentary and 143 folding engraved plates. The last volume contains other related writings, a lexicon of 137 pp., and an historical and geographical index. The whole is prefaced by a 123 page survey of manuscripts and major editions printed between 1486 (editio princeps) and 1812. 'Cette dition, la plus complte et l'une des plus belles qui l'on ait donnes de Vitruve, est le fruit des longues recherches, d'abord de Polini, et ensuite du Comte Stratico.' Brunet. * References: Brunet V, 1328.; Riccardi I, 620: 'grandiosa opera'. * Sold together with a recent critical English language translation 'The Ten Books of Architecture', edited by Ingrid Rowland and Thomaas Howe (Cambridge University Press 1999). $3000.00AUD
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