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M. VITRUVIUS POLLIO
ON
ARCHITECTURE
TEN BOOKS.
With the Notes, Corrections, & Observations
of GUILLAUME PHILANDRIER, entire;
of DANIELE BARBARO, excerpted; and
of CLAUDE DE SAUMAISE, inserted throughout.
Prefixed are
ELEMENTS
OF ARCHITECTURE
Collected by the Illustrious Gentleman
SIR HENRY WOTTON, English Knight.
Added are
THE VITRUVIAN LEXICON
of BERNARDINO BALDI OF URBINO, Abbot of Guastalla;
And by the same
THE VITRUVIAN UNEQUAL SCAMILLI.
ON PAINTING
Three most complete books
of LEON BATTISTA ALBERTI.
ON SCULPTURE
Excerpts most worthy of note from the Dialogue
of POMPONIO GAURICO of Naples.
LOUIS DEMONTIIOS
COMMENTARY
ON SCULPTURE AND PAINTING.
With various most copious INDEXES.
All gathered, arranged, and illustrated into one
BY
JOANNES DE LAET of Antwerp.