Venetia, Camillo e Rutilio Borgominieri, 1569.

Folio [] of (1) bl. l., 195 pp., (6) ll. Limp vellum, handwritten title on spine, scattered waterstaining, small marginal wormholes not touching the text. Contemporary binding.

313 x 225 mm.

Precious 1568 first edition, with a new title-page, of this rare treatise.

Adams, B-171 ; Berlin Kat., 4694 ; Brunet, I, 644; Cicognara, 809; Fowler, 36; Gamba, 1233; Mortimer Italian, 39 ; Censimento, 16 CNCE, 4133 ; Riccardi, I, p. 76-77.

It is illustrated with a very fine engraved title and 200 engraved figures in the text representing optical illusions, geometrical shapes, perspectives, architectural sections, Franceschi's theatre, initials, measurements of the human body...

Several states of the original edition are described without priority: the first in which the date of the title and colophon is 1568, an intermediate state with the title alone dated 1569, another in which both dates are changed.

This is the first work of practical perspective published in Italy.

" Opera dottissima e diligentissima" (Cicognara).

The three full-page woodcuts of theatre scenes come from the Serlio of 1566; others are copies of Dürer's Underweysung der messung. The last plate shows a beautiful representation of a newly invented measuring instrument by Giacomo Fusto Castriotto.

"Barbaro mentions a camera obscura equipped with a ci-convex lens. He introduces a novelty: the use of a diaphragm to…

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