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Folio (354 x 225 mm) 331 pp., 10 unn.ll. ff.n.ch., profusely illustrated including two extensions to pages 216 & 217, and the double-page engraving inserted between pp. 246/247. 18th century Italian mottled sheep, spine gilt with raised bands, red marbled edges (some old restorations to spine and corners).
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Fowler, 8 (incomplete); Vagnetti, EIb4 (for La Pittura); see Kat. Berlin 1817 (Amsterdam edition 1649); Mortimer, Italian, 12 (note); this edition not in Adams.
First complete edition of the works of Leon Battista Alberti, uniting for the first time the works on architecture and painting in one volume.
The translation of the treatise on architecture was first published in Florence in 1550, and the work on painting was first published in Venice in 1547.
The woodcuts illustrating La Pittura are the same as used for the 1550 edition. A very broad margined copy, with all engravings intact and untouched by the binder, including the double page plan of the Baths of Diocletian. It is complete with the extensions (pp. 216/217) which are often missing (as described by Fowler).
“This is the first edition of L’Architettura to be issued with La Pittura. [It is] the second folio edition of Bartoli’s translation of L’Architettura and the second edition (first folio) of Domenichi’s translation of La Pittura” (Fowler).
Very good copy, internally bright and clean.
Provenance: S. Rosen and Thomas Vroom (book plates).
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