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I dieci libri dell'architettura ... tradutti et commenati da Monsignor Barbaro. Venice: Franceso Marcolini, 1556. Folio (410 x 270 mm). A8 B6 C7 D-G8 H6 I8 K-L9 M-Q8 R6 S-T8 V4. Title within woodcut architectural border, woodcut initials, 132 woodcut illustrations and diagrams throughout. With pasted cancel illustrations on E8v and F7r, 8 pasted extensions, volvelle on Q2v. Modern vellum. Wormholes and trails to approximately 60 leaves, wanting volvelles on V2v and V3r, waterstain to A2-6, pp 71 and 167 illustration shaved at fore-edge, several double-page plates mounted on stubs, colophon corner torn away with loss. FIRST EDITION OF BARBARO'S IMPORTANT TRANSLATION, with illustrations by Andrewa Palladio. "The Barbaro Vitruvius of 1556 is particularly remarkable for its precise reconstructions of Greek and Roman buildings and ornaments. It set new standards in architectural publishing, the design of its woodcuts being pared to the minimum of information, to elucidate rather than embellish the text" (Robert Tavernor, introduction to Palladio's Four Books of Architecture, MIT, 1997). Cicognara 713; Fowler 407.