De architectura libri decem [...]. Accesserunt, Gulielmi Philandri Castilionii [...], annotationes castigatiores [...]. Adiecta est epitome in omnes Georgii Agricola de mensuru et ponderibus libros eodem auctore [...].

4to: [16]-460-[35] pp.; 1 pl. (sl. marg. damp stains, some quires sl. age-toned, tiny marg. wormholes, ink stains in quire K, some foxing in last part of the vol.).

Contemp. overl. limp vellum, flat spine (rest of leather on spine).

Second de Tournes edition, after the Lyon ed. of 1552, of Guillaume Philander's annotations on one of the major treatises on architecture. Illustrated with a medallion portrait of Philander, woodcut in-text ill. by Bernard Salomon, a fold. epigraphical plate and title within architectural frame. Commentary in italics; some dotted initials and de Tournes' mark at end. "Epitome onnium Georgii Agricolae de Mensuris et ponderibus libros" also by Philander at end. Some ms. annotations.
Ref. Cartier 664. - Cicognara 721. - Fowler 414. - Adams V-910. - GLN-3205 (with Coloniae Allobrogum, i.e. Geneva, printed on title). - Cp. Kat Berlin 1813 and STC French 445 (1st 1552).
Prov. Old ms. entry. - M. Ogle & Coy, booksellers in Glasgow (label). - Mod. bookpl.