WITRUWIUSZ- O BUDOWNICTWIE KSIĄG DZIESIĘĆ t.1-2 [complete in 1 vol.] published 1840, 40 plates

VITRUVIUS POLLION BRANDS

ABOUT BUILDING

BOOK TEN

Transl. Edward Hr. Raczynski

T.I-II [complete in 1 vol.]

Wroclaw 1840, at Zygmunt Schletter, pp. XV, 381; 427 + 40 plates; format 15x23 cm

Library of Latin Classics translated into Polish, published by Edward Count Raczynski volume V. Bilingual edition, Latin-Polish.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio - Roman architect who lived in the first century BC. He was a designer of war machines during the reigns of Julius Caesar and Octavian Augustus. Creator of the so-called Vitruvian man - a description of the proportions of the human body depicted by a drawing of a naked man inscribed in a circle and square (his own version of this drawing was later popularized by Leonardo da Vinci).

Vitruvius became famous as the author of the treatise On the Architecture of Books Ten, which was written between 20 BC and 10 BC, and was only found in 1415 in the library of the monastery of St. Gallen in Switzerland, by the Florentine humanist Poggio. The work is today an invaluable source of knowledge about the architecture and building art of the ancient Greeks and Romans. In it Vitruvius describes in detail both the Greek classical orders and their Roman variations. The descriptions were supplemented with appropriate illustrations - the original drawings, however, have not survived. The principles used by the Romans in planning cities and erecting buildings are also discussed at length. In the modern period, many famous authors made illustrations for this work, trying to reproduce the lost drawings.

A rare, first Polish translation of the famous architectural treatise!

HARDCOVER HALF LEATHER BINDING OF THE PERIOD. SPINE WITH CONVEX ZWIEZES, EMBOSSING, GILT AND SIGNBOARDS, DECORATIVE LINING

Condition DB/damaged cover, traces of flooding