Leonardo Da Vinci: Engineer and Architect
by Galluzzi, Paulo (ed); Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New in As New dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 2891920848
- ISBN 13
- 9782891920841
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About This Item
Montreal, Canada: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. As New in As New dust jacket. 1987. 1st Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. 2891920848 . Publisher's full blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine and cover, tan endpapers. Profusely illustrated with 437 illustrations, of which 23 are full-color plates. Printed entirely on glossy stock. Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Leonardo da Vinci: Engineer and Architect" presented at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in collaboration with the Canadian Engineering Centennial Board. Includes: Preface by Paolo Galluzzi and Jean Guillaume; Introduction by Carlo Pedretti; The Career of a Technologist by Paolo Galluzzi; Leonardo's Impossible Machines by Augusto Marinoni; The Inventions of Nature and the Nature of Invention by Martin Kemp; A Typology of Leonardo's Mechanisms and Machines by Gustina Scaglia; Leonardo, Brunelleschi and the Machinery of the Construction Site by Salvatore Di Pasquale; The Problems of Leonardo's Architecture in the Context of his Scientific Theories by Andre Chastel; Leonardo and Architecture by Jean Guillaume; Leonardo as Urban Planner by Luigi Firpo; Leonardo, Fortified Architecture and it Structural Problems by Pietro C. Marani; Notes and Selected Bibliographies, General Bibliography, List of Works in the Exhibition, and List of Lenders.. Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket are in perfect, pristine condition; unread, unmarked, tight, square, and clean. A large, heavy book - additional shipping charges may apply. AS NEW/AS NEW.. Reproductions. 4to 11" - 13" tall. xv, 362 (7) pp .
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- Bookseller
- Round Table Books, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13270
- Title
- Leonardo Da Vinci: Engineer and Architect
- Author
- Galluzzi, Paulo (ed); Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
- Illustrator
- Leonardo Da Vinci
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- New As New in As New dust jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition. First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 2891920848
- ISBN 13
- 9782891920841
- Publisher
- Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
- Place of Publication
- Montreal, Canada
- Date Published
- 1987
- Keywords
- 2891920848, Leonardo Da Vinci;, Architecture;, Engineering;, Catalogs;, Art Exhibitions;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Catalogs; Architecture;
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