Architecture.- Vitruvius Pollio (Marcus) Architectura, edited by Simone Stratico, 4 vol. in 8, engraved portrait, 141 engraved or woodcut plates on folding sheets, 2 folding tables, with publishers' advertisement slip detailing numbers of leaves & plates and consequent prices to inside front cover of each volume, occasional spotting, light water-staining to upper outer corner of vol.I part II and vol. IV part I, worming to lower margin of vol.III part I (repaired), bookseller's ticket of C.E.Rappaport of Rome, original printed yellow wrappers, uncut, a little soiled and stained, spines of vol.IV slightly worn, vol.I-III neatly rebacked, [BAL 3505; Not in Berlin Kat., Fowler or Millard], small folio, Udine, Mattiuzzi, 1825-30.

⁂ A massive and erudite edition of Vitruvius by Simone Stratico, professor of mathematics and navigation at the University of Padua, and including the previously unpublished notes by his predecessor Giovanni Poleni. Stratico spent thirty years on the edition but died shortly before printing began. The work represents the culmination of a continuous process of Vitruvian scholarship stretching back to the early Renaissance period, and it was unrivalled up to that point in time in its scale and ambition.