L'Architecture et Art de Bien Bastir
du Seigneur Leon Baptiste Albert, Gentilhomme Florentin, diuisée en dix liures, Traduicts de Latin en François, par deffunćt Ian Martin... [De re aedifactoria].
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Paris, par Iaques Keruer, 1553
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First edition in French. The first edition in French of Leon Battista Alberti's (1404-1472) monumental treatise on the art of building, De re aedificatoria, one of the earliest printed works of architectural theory.
Alberti was the architect behind several important Renaissance constructions, including the Palazzo Rucellai and the Santa Maria Novella in Florence, and began writing the text for the Aedificatoria in the mid-fifteenth century. He continued to revise and add to the work until his death in 1472, and it was eventually published through the efforts of his brother in 1485.
L'Architecture et Art de Bien Bastir was published shortly after the death of its translator Jean Martin (d.1553), who was known for his earlier editions in French of architectural treatises by Serlio, Vitruvius, and Francesco Colonna. A richly illustrated book, more than half of the woodcuts are taken from the 1550 Italian language edition of the text by Cosimo Bartoli, the remainder being drawn from Fra Giacondo's edition of Vitruvius.
With provenance for John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd marquess of Bute (1793-1848), and James Grote Vanderpool (1903-1979), Dean of the Columbia University School of Architecture.
First edition in French; folio (33.5 x 23 cm); ownership inscription and armorial bookplate to front pastedown, woodcut title, initials, headpieces and numerous illustrations, Roman and Italic type, leaves numbered to upper fore-edge margin recto, contemporary annotations in pen in French; 18th-century calf, sympathetically rebacked to style, sprinkled edges, final leaf of text pasted to rear endpaper with some loss to text of imprint, leaves 227 and 228 with a hole affecting text, otherwise internally clean; leaves: [8], 167, [1], 168-184, [2], 185-228.
Mortimer (French) 12; Fowler 7; Kat. Berlin 2553; Brun 106; Cicognara 374; Millard 2.
Alberti was the architect behind several important Renaissance constructions, including the Palazzo Rucellai and the Santa Maria Novella in Florence, and began writing the text for the Aedificatoria in the mid-fifteenth century. He continued to revise and add to the work until his death in 1472, and it was eventually published through the efforts of his brother in 1485.
L'Architecture et Art de Bien Bastir was published shortly after the death of its translator Jean Martin (d.1553), who was known for his earlier editions in French of architectural treatises by Serlio, Vitruvius, and Francesco Colonna. A richly illustrated book, more than half of the woodcuts are taken from the 1550 Italian language edition of the text by Cosimo Bartoli, the remainder being drawn from Fra Giacondo's edition of Vitruvius.
With provenance for John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd marquess of Bute (1793-1848), and James Grote Vanderpool (1903-1979), Dean of the Columbia University School of Architecture.
First edition in French; folio (33.5 x 23 cm); ownership inscription and armorial bookplate to front pastedown, woodcut title, initials, headpieces and numerous illustrations, Roman and Italic type, leaves numbered to upper fore-edge margin recto, contemporary annotations in pen in French; 18th-century calf, sympathetically rebacked to style, sprinkled edges, final leaf of text pasted to rear endpaper with some loss to text of imprint, leaves 227 and 228 with a hole affecting text, otherwise internally clean; leaves: [8], 167, [1], 168-184, [2], 185-228.
Mortimer (French) 12; Fowler 7; Kat. Berlin 2553; Brun 106; Cicognara 374; Millard 2.
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