CATANEO, Pietro.
I Quattro Primi Libri di Architettura.
Venice, Aldus (sons of Aldo Manuzio), 1554. Folio. Woodcut printer's device of Aldus on title and on verso of last leaf, 43 woodcuts in text, of which 8 full-page. Contemp. limp vellum. [2], 54, [2] pp.
€ 5,500
Rare first edition of a beautiful Renaissance woodcut book on architecture and perspectival design by Pietro Cataneo (died 1569), architect in Siena, where he built the Palazzo Franceschini and other important buildings in the Republic of Siena.
Fine large-paper copy.- (Binding sl. stained). Fowler 82; Vagnetti EIIb20; Kat.Berlin 2576; Cicognara 468; Adams C 1024; Riccardi I-1, 319; Besterman, Old Art Books, p. 23; Mortimer, Harvard Italian, 113; Renouard p. 159, no. 8.
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