Art Building by Leon Battista Alberti Joseph Rykwert (7 results)

Very Good 26.0 x 18.0cms 442pp b/w Illusts No Jacket Stain on Spine Hard Cover When Alberti wrote this book in the mid 15th century it was the first text to focus exclusively on architecture for 1000 years. He prescribes how architects and their patrons should build the buildings of the future.

paperback. Condition: fine. Reprint. Illustrated in black and white. 442 pages. Large 8vo, pictorial wrappers. Cambridge: MIT Press, (1999). Eighth printing. Fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Covers shelfworn. Dust jacket worn and chiped.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 470 pages. 10.25x7.00x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First English translation of this foundational architectural treatise based directly on the original Latin text of 1486. Translated by Joseph Rykwert with contributions from Neil Leach and Robert Tavernor.Published in 1988 by MIT Press. 8vo, hardcover with pictorial dust jacket, 442 pages with b/w diagrams and elevations. With an introduction by Rykwert, annotations, a glossary of Latin terms and architectural vocabulary, and a bibliography and index. A significant contribution to the study of architecture, this book makes Alberti's rigorous treatise accessible to modern readersa treatise that helped lay the groundwork for modern architectural theory in its balancing of practicality, beauty, morality, and civic life. Inscribed on the FFE by Joseph Rykwert to curator and author Gabriella Canfield. Minor rubbing to dj, with light chipping to spine end. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hb. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. First Edition. Dark beige cloth on boards with gilt titles. Foot of boards edges with thin ex-book cover residue. Thin bumping to foot of spine. Edges: mild foxing and soiling. Ffep & refp bottom forecorner with thin residue. Clean contents. Illustrated with drawings. Binding is As New. 442p Dj: very faint dusting of soiling. Paperthin light residue to bottom edge. Couple of chips to top-edge.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First American Edition. First modern translation into English of this classic of architectural theory, originally published in Latin in 1486; Alberti's attempt to supercede the authority of Vitruvius, whose ideas had been the core of architectural thought for over a millenium. Includes a contextual introduction by Rykwert, Alberti's chapters on planning & site selection ('Lineaments'), materials & construction, public works, ornamentation, & restoration, notes, bibliography, glossary. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured; the first edition (first printing), listing no later printings. Book shows light wear, minor fading; jacket, a little off-center, shows light rubbing, minor edgewear, discoloration to rear panel from being shelved next to a leatherbound book for quite a few years. Text clean; xxiii, [5], 442 pages; index, illustrations from the 1550 Italian edition of Bartoli. Size: Quarto.