LOT 1705:
Leon Battista Alberti. Ten books about architecture. In two volumes.
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Leon Battista Alberti. Ten books about architecture. In two volumes.
Series: Classics of architecture theory.
M. Publishing House Of The All-Union Academy Of Architecture. 1935-1937 392, 794 p., Fig. Hardcover, size 18 x 24.5 cm. Good condition, notes in the text, a little loose second volume.
The ten books of architecture by Leon-Battista Alberti is the first known architectural treatise since Vitruvius. In the fourteen centuries that separate Alberti from Vitruvius, we do not yet know a single literary document on European architecture. Volume one: Ten books on architecture., Volume two: Most of the volume contains a Commentary on the 1st (263-681 pages) with numerous illustrations, as well as the works of L.-B. Alberti: about painting, about the statue, Mathematical fun.The Appendix contains excerpts from the works of Diodorus, Columella, Varro, Pliny the Younger, albert the Great, Pierre de Crescenzi, and J.-Ant.Campani, F. Patrizzi, And J. Manetti.

