Leonardo Da Vinci - complete and authoritative (large coffee table book)

Published by Reynal & Company, New York, 1967, hardcover, illustrated,28 cms x 37.4 cms x 5.3 cms, some minor wear to lower edges of covers, no dust jacket, otherwise condition: very good.

Publisher's full beige cloth, gilt lettering on spine and cover. Profusely illustrated with a total of 1609 Gravure illustrations, and 12 full-page, full-color plates. Includes extensive Bibliography and Indexes. "This volume is the most complete and authoritative work ever produced on Leonardo."  "In the preparation of this book 37 of the leading scholars in Europe examined each phase of Leonardo's many activities, and contributed a section on it." . 

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. While his fame initially rested on his achievements as a painter, he has also become known for his notebooks, in which he made drawings and notes on a variety of subjects, including anatomy, astronomy, botany, cartography, painting, and palaeontology. Leonardo is widely regarded to have been a genius who epitomised the Renaissance humanist ideal,[4] and his collective works comprise a contribution to later generations of artists matched only by that of his younger contemporary Michelangelo.

                                                                                   1635 ILLUSTRATIONS INCL. 30 ILLUSTRATIONS FROM THE MADRID CODEX

                                                                                                       A LARGE HANDSOME FOLIO-SIZED COFFEE TABLE BOOK.