Content: Illustrations: numerous woodcuts, including historiated border on t.p. and author's portrait. Pictorial initials.
Content: Binding, of vellum.
Content: With monogram label of Baron Horace de Landau and stamp: Bibl. Gvst. C. Galletti, Flor.
Citation/reference: Brunet, J.-C. Manuel du libraire et de l'amateur de livres (5e éd.), v. 1, column 130.
Statement of responsibility: di Leonbatista Alberti Tradotta in lingua Fiorentina da Cosimo Bartoli... Con la aggiunta de Disegni
Biographical/historical: First published in Latin with title De re aedificatoria (Florence, 1485). This is the second Italian translation and the first illustrated edition; a previously published translation by Pietro Lauro (Venice, 1546) has title I dieci libri dell'architettura.
Content: Signatures: a-z⁶ A-C⁶ D⁴ E² F-L⁶ M⁴ N-O⁶. Leaf O6 blank. Sig. E is composed of two leaves pasted together at fore-edge to form one folded sheet with large woodcut plan, paged [321], 322-323, [324] (the unnumbered pages blank; signed "e" on page numbered 323).
Content: Dedication by Bartoli to "Cosimo de Medici, duca di Firenze": pages 3-4.
Citation/reference: Brunet, J.-C. Manuel du libraire et de l'amateur de livres (5e éd.), v. 1, column 130. EDIT 16 CNCE 723