[Rarebooks] FS: Belli's illustrated text on surveying. Venice: 1566

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(MATHEMATICS) Belli, Silvio. LIBRO DEL MISURAR CON LA VISTA... Nel Quale s'Insegna... le Profondita con il Quadrato Geometrico... Venice: Giordano Ziletti. 1566. 4to. (8),108pp. Profusely illustrated with half-page woodcut diagrams. Modern rebinding of boards (a two-color paper antiphonal leaf) with a plain vellum backstrip. Some old text soiling, but overall a nice copy.    $1,500.00 (trade discount allowed)
This is the second edition, but the first to be printed by Ziletti who reprinted it twice later. An early illustrated text (woodcut scenes of towns and the country-side) on measurement for surveying.  Riccardi, column 107. Cicognara 896. Adams B519.

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