Filarete's Treatise on architecture : being the treatise by Antonio di Piero Averlino, known as Filarete / translated with an introduction and notes by John R. Spencer [facsimile collection, complete in two volumes]
1965, First Edition. New Haven : Yale University Press. Near fine cloth copies both in very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrappers, now mylar-sleeved. Very faint foxing to edges, and light offsetting from dust-wrappers to endpapers. Remains a remarkably well-preserved set overall; tight, bright and clean. Item #452565
Series; Yale publications in the history of art ; 16. Physical description; complete in 2 volumes : illustrations, plans ; 37 cm. Notes; Translation of Trattato di architettura. Includes facsimile of the Magliabecchiana manuscript in Florence (Bib. Naz., Magl. II, I. 140). Contents; v. 1. The translation -- v. 2. The facsimile. Subjects; Filarete (ca. 1400-ca. 1469). Architecture -- Early works to 1800. Drawing -- Study and teaching -- Early works to 1800. Architects -- Italy -- Biography.
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