Vitruuius, des aller namhafftigisten vnnd hocherfahrnesten, römischen Architecti, vnnd kunstreichen Werck oder Bawmeisters, Marci Vitruuij Pollionis, zehen Bücher von der Architectur vnd künstlichem Bawen ...
A German-language edition of Vitruvius's ten books on architecture, translated and annotated by Walther Hermann Ryff and printed at Basel by Sebastian Henricpetri in 1614 for German-speaking masons, carpenters and builders. The woodcuts show column bases, capitals, entablatures and mouldings drawn in elevation over lettered and numbered proportion grids, alongside egg-and-dart, rosette and scroll ornament and knotted foliate initials that can be lifted as line ornament or diagram framing.
