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(ARCHITECTURE; ILLUSTRATED) Marcus VITRUVIUS POLLIO 
M. Vitruvii viri suae professionis peritissimi, De Architectura libri decem, ad Augustum Caesarem accuratiss. 
conscripti: & nunc primum in Germania qua potuit diligentia excusi, qtq. hinc in de schematibus non iniucundis 
exornati. A diecimus etiam propter argumenti conformitatem, Sexti Iulii Frontini de aquaeductibus urbis Romae, 
libellum. Item ex libro Nicolai Cusani Card. de staticis experimentis, fragmentum. Cum indice copiosissimo, & 
dispositione longe meliori, quam antea. Argentorati (Strasburg) in officina Knoblochiana per Georgium 
Machaeropicoeum 1543 
§ 4to (195x132); [52], 262, [52] pp. Signature: *⁴ *a-*d⁴ *e⁶ AZ⁴, AA-HH⁴ II⁶ [alpha]-[epsilon]⁴ [zeta]⁶. 
Several large/full-page woodcut illustrations. Later, fascinating,  brown calf, blind-tooled fillets with gilt decoration at the corners, five-ribbed spine with  floral decorations.  Truly fine and crisp copy, practically flawless
Second issue of the first edition printed in Germany, edited by Walther Hermann Ryff. Soon after (the date on the 
colophon of both issues is the same, August 1543) “the master printer, Georg Messerschmidt published a second 
version of it, replacing Ryff’s dedication ... with his own...” (Lemerle); the title pages are also slightly different. 
The text of this edition is largely based on Fra Giocondo’s edition of 1511 and many of the illustrations are also 
the same , but new ones are also included (Andrianou et al. p. 15-16, n. 7). In the present edition two short 
treatises by Frontinus (de aquaeductibus...) and Cusani’s (a fragment from de staticis experimentis) are included. 
Sextus Julius Frontinus (c. 40-103 AD), a Roman civil engineer, author, soldier and senator was appointed in 97 
curator aquarum (supervisor of the aqueducts) by emperor Nerva; de aquaeductibus an official report to the 
emperor on the state of the aqueducts of Rome, is the best known of his technical treatises. 
 F. LEMERLE Books on architecture 
https://architectura.cesr.univ
tours.fr/traite/Notice/Messerschmidt1543.asp?param=en; D. ANDRIANOU, H. STEINMETZ-LOVETTE, C. PASTORE, 
B. ROBINSON, L. TAYLOR, A. ZANONI together with L. HASELBERGER Reviving Vitruvius: Six Centuries of De 
Architectura: A Catalogue of Editions at the University of Pennsylvania 1996 Philadelphia, 1996. 

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