M. Vitruvii Pollionis De architectura libri decem cum notis, castigationibus & observationibus Guilielmi Philandri integris; Danielis Barbari excerptis & Claudii Salmasii passim insertis.

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1649

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Title: M. Vitruvii Pollionis De architectura libri decem cum notis, castigationibus & observationibus Guilielmi Philandri integris; Danielis Barbari excerptis & Claudii Salmasii passim insertis.
Author: Written by Marcus Pollio Vitruvius (Roman, active late 1st century BCE)
Author: Commentary by Guillaume Philander (French, 1505–1565)
Author: Commentary by Daniele Barbaro (Italian, 1514–1570)
Author: Written by Sir Henry Wotton (British, 1568–1639)
Author: Written by Giorgio Agricola (German, 1494–1555)
Author: Written by Nikolaus Goldmann (German, Breslau 1611–1665 Leiden)
Author: Written by Bernardino Baldi (Italian, 1553–1617)
Author: Written by Leon Battista Alberti (Italian, Genoa 1404–1472 Rome)
Author: Written by Pomponio Gauricus (Italian, ca. 1482–1528/30)
Author: Written by Claude de Saumaise (French, 1588–1653)
Editor: Edited by Jan de Laet (Flemish, 1593–1645)
Publisher: Published by Lodewyk Elzevier (Dutch, 1604–1670)
Published in: Amsterdam
Date: 1649
Medium: Printed book with woodcut illustrations and engraved title page
Dimensions: Overall: 12 1/2 x 8 1/4 x 2 1/16 in. (31.7 x 21 x 5.2 cm)
Classification: Books
Credit Line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941
Object Number: 41.100.242
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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