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Thinking straight . No. . No. (outside front cover). The beauty in science (title-page). No. . R I C K T T R I A c K R E M B E O C O U K R S B C 7 A 5 T A L O G Sabine Avenue Narberth, Pennsylvania Tel. -- Fax -- info @mckittrickrarebooks.com www.mckittrickrarebooks.com Member ABAA, SLAM & ILAB B MK A G Hard Hat Area . No. 1. Alberti, Leone Battista. De Re Aedificatoria . Florence, Nicolaus Lau - rentii Alamanus December . Folio ( x mm.). [ ] leaves. Roman type ( Rb), lines per page (a few leaves or ), seven-line capital spaces with printed guide letters, most quires with printed catch - words, some quire signatures printed on the last line of text. th-century Italian vellum over stiff paper boards, ms. spine title, edges sprinkled brown. See facing illustration .$ . First Edition, first state: “ ” (PMM ). This is the first exposition of the scientific theo - ries of the Renaissance on architecture, the earliest printed example of town planning, the first description in the Renaissance of the ideal church and the first printed proposals for hospital design. He discusses frescoes, marble sculpture, windows, staircases, prisons, canals, gardens, machinery, warehouses, markets, arsenals, theaters…. He advocates for hospitals with small private rooms, not long wards, and with segregated facilities for the poor, the sick, the contagious and the noninfectious. “ ” ( PMM ), as well as important restoration projects like the side aisles of Saint Peter’s in Rome. A modest copy (washed, portions of six margins and one corner supplied, three quires foxed, scattered marginal spotting, loss of a half dozen letters, a few leaves lightly stained, two effaced stamps), book - plate of Sergio Colombi with his acquisition date of .X.
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