Among the earlier English authors Shute has already been mentioned. Leon Battista Alberti's De re aedificatoria was not published in English until the early years of the Palladian Revival, when it was translated by Giacomo Leoni. In all, a total of 55 different editions of Vitruvius's ten books, in six different languages, are held in the Collection. In addition to Vitruvius and Alberti, the first editions of the works of Alessandro Capra, Pietro Cataneo, Palladio, Scamozzi and parts of the Architettura of Serlio are also held, as are numerous later editions and adaptations of these works. Other Italian authors include such architects, theorists and historians as Ottavio Bertotti-Scamozzi, F.S. Maffei, Francesco Milizia, G.B. Montano, Famiano Nardini, Giovanni Poleni, Alessandro Pompei, Tomasso Temanza and Antonio Vissentini.
French books are also well represented.
The earliest are the theoretical and illustrative works of Philibert de l'Orme and Jacques Androuet du Cerceau, who laid the foundations for the work of the later theorists Roland Fr art, Pierre Le Muet and Andr F libien. The Collection includes all the relevant works of these authors. The Collection also includes a good range of German and Dutch books, although holdings are weaker in this area than in Italian and French material, and efforts are being made to rectify this. A similar work, derived instead fromScamozzi's codification of the orders and published a century later, is Symon Bosboom's Cort onderwys vande vyf colommen , probably first published in 1657, and likewise translated into English. The Collection also includes architectural works published in Belgium, Greece, Hungary, Portugal, Russia, Scandinavia, Spain and the United States.