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Vitruvius’ Architecture was an indispensable handbook in the 1500s, not only for architects, but for any gentleman who pretended to taste. Thus there are many fine illustrated editions from that time. In this collection we include Vitruvius in various languages, especially if the engravings are good; we have sorted the editions by date.
Di Lucio Vitruuio Pollione de Architectura Libri Dece traducti de latino in Vulgare affigurati: Commentati: & con mirando ordine Insigniti: per il quale facilmente potrai trouari la multitudine de li abstrusi & reconditi Vocabuli a li soi loci & in epsa tabula con summo studio expositi & enucleati ad Immensa utilitate de ciacuno Studioso & benivolo de epsa opera. [Translated by Cæsare Cisarano.] Gotardus de Ponte, 1521.
M. Vitruvii de Architectura libri decem, summa diligentia recogniti atque excusi. Cum nonnullis figuris sub hoc signo * positis. Nunquam antea impræssis. Additis Iulii Frontini de aqueductibus libris, proter materiae affinitatem. 1523. [According to librarian, printed by Guill. Huyon.]
M. Virtuvii Pollionis de Architectura libri decem ad Caesarem Augustum, omnibus omnium editionibus longè emendatiores, collatis veteribus exemplis. Accesserunt, Gulielmi Philandri Castilionii, ciuis Romani annotationes castigatiores, & plus tertia parte locupletiores. Adiecta est Epitome in omnes Georgii Agricolæ De mensuris & ponderibus libros, eodem avtore, cum Græco pariter & Latino indice locupletissimo. Lugduni, apud Ioan. Tornaesium, 1552.
I Dieci Libri dell’Architettura de M. Vitruvio tradutti et commentati da Monsignor Barbaro Eletto Patriarca d’Aquileggia. In Vinegia per Francesco Marcolini, 1556.
M. Vitruvii Pollionis de Architectura libri decem. Cum commentariis Danielis Barbari. Venetiis, apud Franciscum Franciscium Senensum, & Ioan. Crugher Germanum, 1567.
M. Vitruvii Pollionis de Architectura libri decem. Cum notis, castigationibus & observationibus Guilelmi Philandri integris, Danielis Barbari excerptis, & Claudii Salmasii passim insertis. Amstelodami, apud Ludovicum Elzevirum, 1649.
Les Dix livres d’architecture de Vitruve, corrigez et traduits nouvellement en François, avec des Notes & des Figures. A Paris, chez Jean Baptiste Coignard, 1673. —Dedication signed by Claude Perrault.
Seconde Edition reveuë, corrigée, & augmentée, 1684.
The Architecture of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, in Ten Books. Translated from the Latin by Joseph Gwilt. London: Priestley and Weale, 1826.
Vitruvius: The Ten Books on Architecture. Translated by Morris Hicky Morgan, Ph.D., LL.D. With illustrations and original designs prepared under the direction of Herbert Langford Warren, A.M. Cambridge (Mass.): Harvard University Press, 1914.
Another copy.
Vitruvius on Architecture. Edited from the Harleian Manuscript 2767 and translated into English by Frank Granger, D.Lit., A.R.I.B.A. London: William Heinemann; New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons. —Loeb edition, with facing translation.
[Vol. II.] —We could not find the second volume on line. Although the Loeb Classics were published without a copyright notice, thus falling into the public domain in the United States under the laws in force at the time when the Vitruvius volumes were published, it appears that most librarians are not willing to take a risk and make them available.
☛These copies are scanned in a more fax-like resolution, but they are available if the Internet Archive goes off line, and some of them are not found in the Internet Archive.
M. Vitruvii Pollionis De Architectura Libri Decem ad Caesarem Augustum; omnibus omnium editionibus longe emendatiores, collatis veteribus exemplis. Lugduni, 1552. With many illustrations.
M. Vitruvii Pollionis De Architectura Libri Decem, cum commentariis Danielis Barbari, Electi Patriarchae Aquileiensis. Multis aedificiorum, horologium, et machinarum descriptionibus, & figuris, una cum indicibus copiosis, auctis & illustratis. venetiis, 1567. Beautifully printed in italic type, with splendid engravings.
M. Vitruvii Pollionis De Architectura Libri Decem, ad Caes. Augustum… (Missing title page in scan, but the date "1586" is scrawled on a blank page, which seems about right from the style of printing.)
The Architecture of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, in ten books. Translated from the Latin by Joseph Gwilt. 1826.
The Ten Books on Architecture, translated by Morris Hicky Morgan, Ph.D., Ll.D. With illustrations and original designs prepared under the direction of Herbert Langford Warren, A.M. 1914.
(Another copy.)