M. Vitrvvii viri svae professionis pertissimi De architectvra libri decem,
ad Avgvstum Cæsarem accuratiss. conscripsit & nvnc primvm in Germania qva potuit diligentia excusi, atq[ue] hinc inde schematibus non iniucundis exornati.
Per Gvalthervm H. Ryff argentinum, medicum. Adiecimvs etiam propter argumenti conformitatem, Sexti Ivlii Frontini De aqvaedvctibvs vrbis Romae, libellum. Item ex libro Nicolai Cvsani card. De staticis experimentis, fragmentum. Cum indice copiosissimo, & dispositione longe meliori, quàm antea.

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Main Author

Vitruvius Pollio.

Related Names

Frontinus, Sextus Julius.
Nicholas, of Cusa, Cardinal, 1401-1464.
Ryff, Walther Hermann, d. 1548.

Language(s)

Latin

Published

Argentorati, In officina Knoblochiana per Georgiu[m] Machæropiœum, expensis Christiani Egenolphi, 1543.

Subjects

Aqueducts > Aqueducts / Italy > Aqueducts / Italy / Rome > Aqueducts / Italy / Rome / Early works to 1800.
Water-supply > Water-supply / Italy > Water-supply / Italy / Rome > Water-supply / Italy / Rome / Early works to 1800.
Weight (Physics) > Weight (Physics) / Early works to 1800.
Balances (Weighing instruments) > Balances (Weighing instruments) / Early works to 1800.
Architecture > Architecture / Early works to 1800.

Note

Signatures: *⁴ *a-*d⁴ *e⁶ A-2H⁴ 2I⁶ [alpha-zeta]⁴.
P. 97-98 omitted in paging.
Plates based on those of the 1521 Como edition.
The first issue, with Ryff given as editor on t.p. and as dedicator on following leaf.

Physical Description

[52], 262 [i. e. 260], [50] p., 1 l. illus. 21 cm.

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