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Vitruvius. De architectura libri decem ad Caes. Augustum

Lyon, apud Ioan. Tornaesium., 1586

Quarto (243x161 mm.), [8] leaves, 460 pages, [18] leaves; printer's device on last leaf, 1 folding plate and many text illustrations, 1 woodcut portrait of Philander at the beginning. Contemporary French limp vellum with blind impression, flat spine with manuscript title. Binding with some worming, otherwise a very good copy.
Rare second edition (first 1552, Lyon) of Vitruvius' architectural work to be printed in France, edited and annotated by the French architect and humanist Guillaume Philandrier (1505-1565).

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