Vitruvius Pollio, Marcus. Architecture ou Art de bien bastir de Marc Vitruve Pollion autheur romain antique: mis Latin en Francois, par Ian Martin Secretaire de Monseigneur le Cardinal de Lenoncourt. Paris: Jérôme de Marnef & Guillaume Cavellat, 1572
Second edition of Jean Martin's translation (see lots 647 and 648). The woodcut illustrations are almost all reused from the 1547 edition, with the exception of two larger woodcuts at the end taken from other sources.
Folio (354 x 253 mm). Roman type, 47 lines plus headline. collation: A4 B-GG6 HH4: 182 leaves. Title-page within woodcut border, 162 woodcut illustrations (some full-page, including 3 folding), woodcut printer's device on final verso, R4r annotated in ink at margin by an ?eighteenth-century reader with small perspectival drawing of a Greek banqueting hall next to woodcut of floorplan (with pencil annotations beneath by a later reader). (K4 frayed at foredge affecting edge of woodcut, R4 with closed tear at lower margin extending into bottom third of leaf, a few other small closed tears.)
binding: Seventeenth-century mottled calf (365 x 245 mm), spine gilt with raised bands in seven compartments, red edges. (Repairs to ends of spine and joints, boards slightly scuffed).
provenance: Early modern inscription "J. Bouchin | Varennes" to title — "ex libris Thierry 1784" written beneath printer's device on title (plausibly the ownership inscription of Marc-Antoine Thierry de Ville-d'Avray (1732-1792), premier valet de chambre of Louis XVI, who built Château de Thierry in 1776), with manuscript inventory number and traces of removed bookplate to front pastedown — Christie's, 26 April 1989, lot 178. acquisition: Purchased at the preceding sale. references: Fowler 411; Mortimer, Harvard French 551; cf. BAL RIBA 3510
Vitruvius Pollio, Marcus. Architecture ou Art de bien bastir de Marc Vitruve Pollion autheur romain antique: mis Latin en Francois, par Ian Martin Secretaire de Monseigneur le Cardinal de Lenoncourt. Paris: Jérôme de Marnef & Guillaume Cavellat, 1572
Second edition of Jean Martin's translation (see lots 647 and 648). The woodcut illustrations are almost all reused from the 1547 edition, with the exception of two larger woodcuts at the end taken from other sources.
Folio (354 x 253 mm). Roman type, 47 lines plus headline. collation: A4 B-GG6 HH4: 182 leaves. Title-page within woodcut border, 162 woodcut illustrations (some full-page, including 3 folding), woodcut printer's device on final verso, R4r annotated in ink at margin by an ?eighteenth-century reader with small perspectival drawing of a Greek banqueting hall next to woodcut of floorplan (with pencil annotations beneath by a later reader). (K4 frayed at foredge affecting edge of woodcut, R4 with closed tear at lower margin extending into bottom third of leaf, a few other small closed tears.)
binding: Seventeenth-century mottled calf (365 x 245 mm), spine gilt with raised bands in seven compartments, red edges. (Repairs to ends of spine and joints, boards slightly scuffed).
provenance: Early modern inscription "J. Bouchin | Varennes" to title — "ex libris Thierry 1784" written beneath printer's device on title (plausibly the ownership inscription of Marc-Antoine Thierry de Ville-d'Avray (1732-1792), premier valet de chambre of Louis XVI, who built Château de Thierry in 1776), with manuscript inventory number and traces of removed bookplate to front pastedown — Christie's, 26 April 1989, lot 178. acquisition: Purchased at the preceding sale. references: Fowler 411; Mortimer, Harvard French 551; cf. BAL RIBA 3510
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