M. Vitruvii, viri suae professionis peritissimi, De architectura libri decem, ad Augustum Caesarem accuratiss. conscripti: & nunc primum in Germania qua potuit diligentia excusi, atque hinc inde schema tibus non iniucundis exornati (1543) - Page 6

M. VITRUVIUS

A MAN MOST EXPERT IN HIS OWN

PROFESSION,

ON ARCHITECTURE

TEN BOOKS, WRITTEN MOST ACCURATELY

FOR AUGUSTUS CAESAR:

NOW FOR THE FIRST TIME IN GERMANY, WITH THE

GREATEST POSSIBLE DILIGENCE PRINTED, AND HERE AND THERE ADORNED WITH

NOT UNPLEASANT DIAGRAMS.

* WE HAVE ALSO ADDED, ON ACCOUNT OF THE

CONFORMITY OF THE SUBJECT MATTER,

SEXTUS JULIUS FRONTINUS' TREATISE ON

THE AQUEDUCTS OF THE CITY OF ROME.

ALSO A FRAGMENT FROM THE BOOK

BY NICHOLAS OF CUSA, CARDINAL,

ON STATICAL EXPERIMENTS.

With a most copious index, and a

disposition far better than before.

STRASBOURG original: "Argentorati", IN THE SHOP

OF KNOBLOCH, BY GEORG MACHAEROPUS original: "Georgium Machæropœum".

YEAR 1543.

A woodcut printer’s mark features a circular emblem with intertwined initials.

Handwritten signature "H. Ziegler" at the bottom right.