Sale 2457 - Early Printed Medical, Scientific & Travel Books, October 17, 2017

10 ● SERLIO, SEBASTIANO. Tutte l’Opere d’Architettura, et Prospetiva. Divisional titles within woodcut architectural borders; profusion of full-page and text illustrations. 3-219, [1], 27 leaves; [2], 243 pages; lacks the 25 preliminary leaves, including general title. 7 parts in 3, bound in one volume. 4to, 236x168 mm, 18th-century mottled sheep gilt, spine ends damaged, joints cracked, cords intact; marginal dampstaining at beginning and end, contents otherwise clean, sidenotes slightly shaved on C1-4 and C6 in book 6. Fowler 335.Vicenza: Giacomo de’ Franceschi, 1619 [400/600] 11 ● VITRUVIUS POLLIO, MARCUS. Architettura. Con il suo Co[m]mento et Figure. Vetruvio in Volgar Lingua. Italian translation by Giovanni Battista Caporali. Woodcut illustrations throughout. [3], 131 leaves, including woodcut title. Folio, 282x210 mm, 18th-century sheep-backed marbled boards, short crack in front joint, cover corners worn through; varying foxing or browning, scattered marginal soiling and stains, blank lower outer corner off G2, modern owner’s pencil notes on endpaper facing title. (Perugia: Giano Bigazzini, 1 April 1536) [1,500/2,500] FIRST EDITION of this translation of the first 5 of the 10 books ofVitruvius. Fowler 400; Harvard/ Mortimer-Italian 546; Sander 7700. 11 11 10