DÜRER, ALBRECHT. 1471-1528.

Di Alberto Durero pittore, e geometra chiarissimo. Della simmetria dei corpi humani. Libri quattro.... [Venice]: Roberto Meietti, 1594.

Di Alberto Durero pittore, e geometra chiarissimo. Della simmetria dei corpi humani. Libri quattro.... [Venice]: Roberto Meietti, 1594.
Folio (318 x 217 mm). Woodcut printer's device on title, numerous illustrations in text, 3 folding diagrams (M4, Q4 and Q5). 20th century sheep with large central panel of a contemporary gold tooled calf binding, edges stained blue. Dampstaining and staining throughout.

First edition of Gallucci's Italian translation of Dürer's masterpiece on human proportion. The first application of anthropometry to aesthetics. The woodcuts are copied from the first edition, posthumously published at Nuremberg in 1528 as Vier Bücher von menschlicher Proportion. "Written, designed and illustrated by Dürer, the posthumous Vier Bücher was the first work to discuss the problems of comparative and differential anthropometry" (DSB). Gallucci added a fifth book. Adams D-1055; Cicognara 321; Durling/NLM 1299; See Mortimer, Italian 169.