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Venice, Camillo and Rutilio Borgominieri, at the Sign of San Giorgio, 1568. In 2nd. Title within woodcut border which includes the first two words and woodcut printer's brand, repeated at 2B6v., italic font, 220 woodcut illustrations and diagrams, 23 full page, one double page, woodcut headers with three-dimensional geometric shapes and woodcut initials, redness and marginal stains, contemporary binding in loose parchment, extremely genuine copy. Handwritten ownership note on the title page from the 16th century.
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'LEARNED AND DILIGENT WORK', Cicognara.
SEARCHED EDITION, partly compiled starting from the works of previous theorists of perspective, in particular from Dürer's Unterweysung der Messung (published in German in 1525 and in Latin in 1532). The three large landscape cuts that show the decorations of the theater are copied from the illustrations of the first quarto edition of Serlio's De architecture (Venice: 1566); other plates and the description of Dürer's “instrument for drawing in perspective” (2A2r) derive from his Unterweysungand from Barbaro's edition of Vitruvius (Venice, 1567). Among the original woodcuts of this work there are a full-page engraving of a new type of measuring instrument invented by Giacomo Fusto Castriotto (2A4r) and the suggestive three-dimensional ornaments of the headers. This edition is known in several issues: this example has the title dated 1568 and the colophon 1569; the woodcut initial ''S'' on V2r depicting a swordsman on horseback.
Adams B-171; Berlin Kat. 4694; Brunet I, 644; Cicognara 809; Fowler 36; Leg 1233; Mortimer Italian 39;
SEARCHED EDITION, partly compiled starting from the works of previous theorists of perspective, in particular from Dürer's Unterweysung der Messung (published in German in 1525 and in Latin in 1532). The three large landscape cuts that show the decorations of the theater are copied from the illustrations of the first quarto edition of Serlio's De architecture (Venice: 1566); other plates and the description of Dürer's “instrument for drawing in perspective” (2A2r) derive from his Unterweysungand from Barbaro's edition of Vitruvius (Venice, 1567). Among the original woodcuts of this work there are a full-page engraving of a new type of measuring instrument invented by Giacomo Fusto Castriotto (2A4r) and the suggestive three-dimensional ornaments of the headers. This edition is known in several issues: this example has the title dated 1568 and the colophon 1569; the woodcut initial ''S'' on V2r depicting a swordsman on horseback.
Adams B-171; Berlin Kat. 4694; Brunet I, 644; Cicognara 809; Fowler 36; Leg 1233; Mortimer Italian 39;
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