{"product_id":"vitruvius-and-agricola-georgius-ed-philandrier-guillaume","title":"VITRUVIUS and AGRICOLA, Georgius, ed. PHILANDRIER, Guillaume.","description":"\u003cp\u003e.First de Tournes edition of Vitruvius s De architectura using the commentary of Guillaume Philandrier (1505-63), and the first Philandrier edition to be printed in France, first published Rome 1544, with Philandrier s epitome of the German mineralogist Georgius Agricola s work on ancient Roman weights and measures, beautifully printed. In contemporary morocco with contemporary provenance, from the library of Oswald von Eck, a German humanist. .\u003cbr\u003e\n.\u003cbr\u003e\n..Vitruvius s treatise on architecture was extremely popular with Renaissance architects, prompting many to emulate ancient Roman buildings, as well as humanists and antiquarians for the wealth of detailed information it provided on ancient Roman life. The commentary of the French architect Guillaume Philandrier on Vitruvius was one of the most influential, and is accompanied in this edition by his epitome of Georgius Agricola s De mensuris et ponderibus, first published 1533, which was intended to be used alongside that work, allowing readers to navigate it according to categories of measurement including liquid and dry, medical and veterinary, Greek and Roman, etc. It was also useful without recourse to Agricola s work, however, since it clearly lays out the divisions of larger measurements into smaller. There follow two indexes to Vitruvius of Roman and Greek words. .\u003cbr\u003e\n.\u003cbr\u003e\n..Oswald von Eck, who most likely commissioned the binding, was the son of the German humanist Leonard von Eck (1480-1550), tutor of Duke William IV and chancellor of Bavaria. Oswald studied at the universities of Ingoldstadt, of which he became rector in 1539, and Bologna. He was involved in the Ortenburg Nobles  Conspiracy to introduce Protestantism to Bavaria, after which he fell into serious debt and at his death in 1573 his goods, including his library, were auctioned off. The majority of his books were purchased by Erasmus Neustetter (d. 1594) and several are now in the Württemberg State Library..\u003cbr\u003e\n.\u003cbr\u003e\n. \u003cbr\u003e\n.\u003cbr\u003e\n.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"VITRUVIUS and AGRICOLA, Georgius, ed. PHILANDRIER, Guillaume.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57868723290447,"sku":"L4527","price":9500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/sokol-books-ltd.myshopify.com\/products\/vitruvius-and-agricola-georgius-ed-philandrier-guillaume","provider":"Sokol Books Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}