Vitruvius Pollio, Marcus

De Architectura libri decem!additis, I. Frontini de aqueductibus. Edited by Giovanni Giocondo

      Florence: heirs of Filippo Giunta, November 1522. Florence: heirs of Filippo Giunta, November 1522. . 2 parts in one octavo volume. Very good in a contemporary vellum binding, with hand-lettered spine. Page edges red.. Woodcut printer!s pictorial device on title and verso of last leaf; 140 woodcut illustrations including floor plans, elevations, architectural details such as columns, and construction details of masonry and carpentry. 19th century bookplate of English antiquarian Eliot Hodgrin. A new, corrected typesetting, in italic, of the 1413 Giunta edition, edited by the Dominican friar Giovanni Giocondo of Verona (1435-1515), an important figure among early Renaissance antiquaries. Vitruvius! work is followed by Julius Frontinus! De aqaedictibus urbis Romae, !ouvrage d!une grande utilite pour la connaissance de l!architecture ancienne! (Hoefer XVIII, 913).