VITRUVIUS POLLIO (MARCUS) De architectura libri decem, text in Latin, printer's woodcut device on title and final leaf, numerous woodcut illustrations (many full-page, including map of Venice), the dedication and index (a2-6, b1-4) bound at end, one leaf (Q4) folded, early inscription excised from upper margin of the title, R2 cropped at fold, ink numeral on blank margin of final leaf, contemporary blind-stamp calf, rebacked, corners worn [Adams V909; Cicognara 716; Fowler 409], folio (290 x 200mm.), Venice, Francesco de' Franceschi and Giovanni Chrieger, 1567 First Latin edition of Barbaro's commentary. "In this edition Barbaro follows closely the Philander edition of 1552. The plates, reduced copies of those found in the Marcolini edition [of 1556], are attributed by Poleni and Cicognara to Johann Chrieger..., and are the same as those in the Italian edition of the same year" (Fowler). Provenance: Brooklyn Public Library, and note recording sale at auction in 1986.