VITRUVIUS. Philander, G., In decem libros M. Vitruvii Pollionis de architectura annotationes. Paris, Jacques Kerver, 1545.

8vo (160x100 mm), text illustrated with 66 woodcuts, contemporary limp vellum with manuscript title on spine, a waterstain affecting the lower half throughout the volume, wormholes to the lower blank margin, and at gutter of several leaves (partly affecting letters of text only in pp. 289-356). Kerver’s woodcut device, pp. (16), 357, (35), printed in cursive type, with 66 architectural woodcuts in the text.


Rare second (first French) edition of the classical commentary on Vitruvius, the first one appeared in Rome in 1544. Cicognara 709; BMC STC, French Books p. 349; Adams P-990 and Brit. Arch. Libr. 2527; see Fowler 402 and 405.