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Books & Works on Paper including Autographs & Memorabilia (31 Mar 2020) Tue, 31st Mar 2020 Viewing: Clients may bid online via our own bidding platform, by telephone or absentee bidding as normal. Lot 74 Estimate: £1000 - £1500 + Fees Vitruvius (Pollio) Vitruvius (Pollio) De architectura libri decem nuper maxima diligentia castigati atque excusi, additis, Iulii Frontini de aqueductibus libris propter materiæ affinitatem, 2 parts in one volume, with separate pagination, woodcut printer’s device on title, ink faded, last leaf supplied in early facsimile, lacking Giunta’s device on verso, circa 140 illustrations, some leaves misnumbered, front endpaper and first 2 leaves restored, some spotting or foxing, paper flaws to E1, slight water staining to quire E & F, contemporary marginalia in part 2, later vellum over boards, new endpapers, soiled, upper hinge split, with loss, slight worming, [Adams V 904; Berlin Kat. 1800; Cicognara 699; Fowlwe 396; Sander 7697], 8vo, Giunti, Florence, 1522. ***Filippo Giunta’s re-edition in italics of the 1513 pocket version of Vitruvius, following the illustrated edition that Fr' Giocondo had published in Venice in 1511, with the woodcuts from the same blocks. It is accompanied by Frontinus’ treatise, De aquæductibus. It has been proved that Giocondo himself went back over the text, the index and the illustrations. A copy from 1511 kept at the ‘Centro Internazionale di Studi di Archittetura Andrea Palladio’, which was used to prepare the Giunta edition (Tura 2011, pp. 29- 36) proves this. Giocondo’s corrections are concerned above all with assimilating the errata from 1511, including the illustrations. The work is dedicated to Giulio de' Medici. Giovanni Giocondo of Verona (1435-1515) was an Italian friar, architect, antiquary, archaeologist, and classical scholar. See L. A. Ciapponi, ‘Fra Giocondo da Verona and his edition of Vitruvius’, in ‘Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes’, 47, 1984, pp. 72-90, & A. Tura, “Un Vitruvio a Vicenza, un Alberti a New York", ‘Pegasus, Berliner Beiträge zum Nachleben der Antike’, 13, 2011, pp. 29-39..

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