Vitruuius teutsch
Subtitle: nemlichen des aller namhafftigisten vñ hocherfarnesten römischen Architecti vnd kunstreichen Werck oder Bawmeisters Marci Vitruuij Pollionis Zehen Bücher von der Architectur vnd künstlichem Bawen ...
By: erstmals verteutscht vnd in Truck verordnet durch D. Gualtherũ H. Riuium ...
Contributors: Ryff, Walther Hermann, -1548
Publisher: Truckts Johan Petreius
Published: 1548
Place of publication: Zu Nürnberg
Language: ger
Number of pages: 18
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Architecture
Other titles: Vitruvius teutsch :; Marci Vitruuij Pollionis Zehen Bücher von der Architectur vnd künstlichem Bawen; Zehen Bücher von der Architectur vnd künstlichem Bawen; Zehen Bücher von der Architectur und künstlichem Bauen
Work titles: De architectura
Notes: Leaves printed on both sides.

First ed. of Walter Ryff's German translation.

The illustrations, attributed to Peter Flötner, Virgil Solis, Georg Pencz, Hans Brosamer, and Erhard Schön, with initials by Hans Springinklee, are based mainly on the 1521 Como edition. Many of the plates were used in Ryff's Bawkunst. See Fowler.

Fowler 404

Binding: original alum-tawed pigskin over wooden boards. Boards beveled at center of head, foot, and foredge. Two clasps on leather hinges and fastening bars at foredges. Covers decorated with fillets, rolls and stamps in blind. Central panel with 4 vertical rows of floral decoration. Widest roll has 4 half figures with mottoes; the one labelled Isaias incorporates the date 1548. Top edges gilt.

Library's copy has inscription in black ink at lower right corner of t.p.: Ioannes Rodolphus ab Erlach / Nasci. Laborare. Mori.