ALBERTI, Leon Battista (1404-1472). Opuscoli morali . Venice: Francesco Franceschi, 1568.
ALBERTI, Leon Battista (1404-1472). Opuscoli morali . Venice: Francesco Franceschi, 1568. 4° (218 x 152 mm). Title printed within a woodcut border with allegorical figures, woodcut portrait of Alberti on the title verso, allegorical woodcut illustrations and diagrams in the section on art and mathematics, historiated woodcut initials, errata leaf at end. (Imprint on title scored and partly pasted over with a slip, top margin of title closely shaved, some leaves lightly browned.) Contemporary vellum (joints split at head and foot of spine, lightly spoiled). Provenance: Jacob Manzoni (d.1889, bibliophile and scion of a Milanese aristocratic family; bookplate, his library dispersed in 1892-1893). FIRST COLLECTED EDITION IN ITALIAN, translated by Cosimo Bartoli Alberti's treatises cover a variety of subjects including mathematics, 'Delle piacevolezze delle Matematiche,' sculpture and painting, 'Delia Statua' and 'Della Pittura,' cipher writing, the administration of justice, city and country life and surveying and measuring. Adams A-486; cf. Riccardi I, 17-18.
ALBERTI, Leon Battista (1404-1472). Opuscoli morali . Venice: Francesco Franceschi, 1568.
ALBERTI, Leon Battista (1404-1472). Opuscoli morali . Venice: Francesco Franceschi, 1568. 4° (218 x 152 mm). Title printed within a woodcut border with allegorical figures, woodcut portrait of Alberti on the title verso, allegorical woodcut illustrations and diagrams in the section on art and mathematics, historiated woodcut initials, errata leaf at end. (Imprint on title scored and partly pasted over with a slip, top margin of title closely shaved, some leaves lightly browned.) Contemporary vellum (joints split at head and foot of spine, lightly spoiled). Provenance: Jacob Manzoni (d.1889, bibliophile and scion of a Milanese aristocratic family; bookplate, his library dispersed in 1892-1893). FIRST COLLECTED EDITION IN ITALIAN, translated by Cosimo Bartoli Alberti's treatises cover a variety of subjects including mathematics, 'Delle piacevolezze delle Matematiche,' sculpture and painting, 'Delia Statua' and 'Della Pittura,' cipher writing, the administration of justice, city and country life and surveying and measuring. Adams A-486; cf. Riccardi I, 17-18.
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