Albrecht (1539) Sold at Auction Prices

Dürer, De urbibus, arcibus, castellique condendis, Paris, 1535, Spanish morocco with arms of Marques de Moya

Dürer, Albrecht. Alberti Dureri pictoris et architecti praestantissimi De urbibus, arcibus, castellisque condendis, ac muniendis rationes aliquot praesenti bellorum necessitati accommodatissimae: nunc recens è lingua Germanica in Latinam traductae. Paris: Chrétien Wechel, 1535 [bound with:] Thucydides. Thucydidis Atheniensis historiographi longe clarissimi De bello Peloponnesiaco libri octo: ab Laurentio Vallensi translati, & a doctissimis viris cum grecis collati: cum eiusdem vita & indice amplissimo. Paris: Josse Bade and Jean Petit, (1 September 1528) First Latin edition in Joachim Camerarius's translation of Dürer’s Unterricht zu Befestigung der Stett (see lot 512), with woodcuts closely copied from the earlier edition, bound with a copy of Valla's Latin translation of Thucydides' history of the Peloponnesian War. The library of Francisco Pérez Cabrera y Bobadilla, numbering perhaps 400-500 volumes, was bound for him in the late sixteenth century with distinctive title cartouches drawn on the foredge of each volume; the books were given a category by language (L for Latin as here, Italian, Portuguese, French or Romance) along with the date of binding, mostly 1592 or 1593. Some of his books were acquired in Medina del Campo in 1592 from Juan Boyer and bound by Juan Sarría, a bookseller in Alcalà and Madrid. The bulk of the Bobadilla library is now in the Zabálburu library in Madrid, purchased in the late nineteenth century from Pedro Vindel, where it is still shelved with the foredges facing out. A Don Antonio Vela translated Sepúlveda from Spanish into Latin, printed in Toledo in 1566. 2 works in one volume, folio (317 x 207 mm), Thucydides bound first. Both works in roman type. Dürer: collation: a6 b4 c5 d4 e6 f5 g4 h5: 40 leaves. Title-page with woodcut printer's device, printer's device on final verso (otherwise blank), numerous woodcut illustrations (of which 10 folding); Thucydides: collation: a8 a-m8: 104 leaves. Title-page with woodcut printer's device and within woodcut border, woodcut initials. (Final plate of Dürer strengthened at fold, light spotting and marginal dampstaining particularly at beginning and end, endleaves browned and slightly chipped near metal clasps, otherwise a fine copy). binding: Later sixteenth-century Spanish light brown morocco gilt over wooden boards (326 x 216 mm), for the 6th Marqués de Moya, with his arms gilt on both covers within concentric frames of gilt and blind fillets with corner fleurons, spine with gilt rosette in each compartment, gilt and gauffered edges with "Thucydides" lettered in a cartouche across the foredge with the category L for Latin, two clasps. (Binding rubbed and scraped with slight loss on covers and at extremities, spine ends chipped, front board split and repaired.) provenance: M. Don Ant.o Vela, 1573, inscription on title-page of both works — Don Francisco Pérez Cabrera y Bobadilla, Marqués de Moya (1565-1627), bound for him in 1592 — manuscript note to verso of rear endpaper, recording that this copy was bought in Madrid on 3 August 1696 "del libr[er]o Diego Ximenez quinez[?]" — erased ownership inscription F.M. Hegener to verso of front flyleaf — Robert Chambers (1802-1871, founder of Chambers Encyclopedia), armorial bookplate — Cyril Ernest Kenney (1898-1973), sale, Sotheby's, 21 October 1968, lot 4300, £170, to Quaritch. acquisition: Purchased in 1997 from Bernard Quaritch, London. references: Dürer: Mortimer, Harvard French 184; USTC 182092; Thucydides: USTC 187322

Altdorfer, Albrecht

(1480 Landshut - Regensburg 1538). Jesus unter den Schriftgelehrten. Holzschnitt auf feinem Bütten aus der Folge "Sündenfall und Erlösung des Menschengeschlechts", um 1513. 7,3 x 4,9 cm Einfassungslinie, mit Rändchen. Unter Passep. mont. Winzinger 39. B. 14. New Ho. 14. - Ausgezeichneter, wenngleich etwas grauer zeitgenössischer Abdruck. - Gut erhalten. D

Altdorfer, Albrecht

(1480 Landshut - Regensburg 1538). Jesus unter den Schriftgelehrten. Aus der Folge "Sündenfall und Erlösung des Menschengeschlechts". Holzschnitt auf feinem Bütten um 1513. 7,2 x 4,7 cm., Blgr. 7,4 x 5 cm. Mit d. Monogr. oben li. Winzinger 39, wohl c. B. 14. New Ho. 14. - Guter Abdruck mit Schaden an der Einfassungslinie rechts. 2 winzige Rotfleckchen in d. Darst. R

Altdorfer, Albrecht

(1480 Landshut - Regensburg 1538). Die Geisselung. Holzschnitt auf Bütten aus der Folge "Sündenfall und Erlösung des Menschengeschlechts", um 1523. 7,3 x 4,9 cm. Einfassungslinie. Unter Passep. mont. Winzinger 48. - Brillanter früher Abdruck. - Gut erhalten und mit deutlichem Relief verso. D

Altdorfer, Albrecht

(1480 Landshut - Regensburg 1538). Jael und Sisera. Holzschnitt auf Bütten um 1513. 12,2 x 9,5 cm. Bis zur Einfassungslinie beschnitten. Auf weißes Papier mont. Winziger 23, wohl c (von g). B. 43. New Ho. 43. - 2 kl. Dünnstellen oben links, Montierreste verso. Aus Sammlung Hugo Ahne, Aussig (so nicht bei Lugt, vgl. L.4813). R

Altdorfer, Albrecht

(1480 Landshut - Regensburg 1538). Herkules und die Muse. Kupferstich, um 1520/25. 6,6 x 4,5 cm. Mit d. Monogr. oben in der Pl. Punktuell auf Papier geklebt. Winzinger 160 Ic (von II). Hollstein 33 II (von III). - Dünnstelle links u. Einriß unten vom größeren Stein aus bis etwas über das Knie der Muse, unten mit einem 1 cm. breiten, transparenten Streifen überklebt. Die Ecken verso mit etw. Leimbräunung, oben transparenter Papierrest von Montierung. Unteres rechtes Eck mit Stemp. (-Fragment ?) mit winzigem Monogramm MD (?, nicht bei Lugt). - Sehr selten. R

Altdorfer, Albrecht

(1480 Landshut - Regensburg 1538). Christus vor Herodes. Aus der Folge "Sündenfall und Erlösung des Menschengeschlechts". Holzschnitt auf Bütten um 1513. 7,2 x 4,8 cm. Mit d. Monogr. oben li. Mit tls. winzigem Rändchen um die Einfassungslinie. Winzinger 47. B. 22. New Ho. 22. - Dünnstelle oben rechts, linker Rand mit kl. Fehlst. d. Einfassungslinie. R

Altdorfer, Albrecht

(1480 Regensburg 1538). Jüngstes Gericht. Holzschnitt um 1513/1514. Ca. 7,2 x 4,8 cm. Monogr. im Stock. Bis knapp vor das Rändchen beschn. Verso m. Bez. u. Sp. früherer Mont. Abzug etw. schwach. Aus der Serie "Sündenfall und Erlösung des Menschengeschlechts". Womögl. Abzug des 16./17. Jh. - B. 39. - Angest. D

Altdorfer, Albrecht

(1480 Regensburg 1538). Jüngstes Gericht. Holzschnitt um 1513/1514. Ca. 7,2 x 4,8 cm. Monogr. im Stock. Bis knapp vor das Rändchen beschn. Verso m. Bez. u. Sp. früherer Mont. Abzug etw. schwach. Aus der Serie "Sündenfall und Erlösung des Menschengeschlechts". Womögl. Abzug des 16./17. Jh. - B. 39. - Angest. - D

Faksimiles - Gabriel Glockendon. Gebetbuch für Kardinal Albrecht von Brandenburg.

Nürnberg 1536/37. Codex 1847 der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek Wien. Münster, Biblotheca Rara 2008. Mit 42 blattgroßen Miniaturen und zahlreichen verzierten Initialen. Brauner Originallederband mit Goldprägung und Rückenschild. Zusammen mit einem Originalleinenband im -schuber. Eins von 399 Exemplaren der Sonderausgabe für Bibliotheca Rara (Gesamtauflage 998). - Anfang des 16. Jahrhunderts entstanden im Auftrag des Kardinal Albrecht von Brandenburg drei Abschriften einer gedruckten Ausgabe der »Betrachtungen des Lebens und Leidens Christi« von Thomas von Kempen. Diese Abschriften wurden innerhalb von etwa 15 Jahren von Simon Bening, Georg Stierlein und schließlich 1537 von Gabriel Glockendon prachtvoll illustriert. - Mit dem Kommentarband von Dagmar Toss. - Das Faksimile entstand nach der Restaurierung der Handschrift im Jahre 2001. 24,5 : 19,5 cm. [2], 100, [1] Blätter.

Altdorfer, Albrecht

(1480 Regensburg 1538). Jüngstes Gericht. Holzschnitt um 1513/1514. Ca. 7,2 x 4,8 cm. Monogr. im Stock. Bis knapp vor das Rändchen beschn. Verso m. Bez. u. Sp. früherer Mont. Abzug etw. schwach. R

Fries (Lorenz). Geographicae Enarrationis Libri Octo, printed in Vienne and published in Lyons by Gaspar Trechsel, 1541,

title page trimmed at base, two woodcuts attributed to Albrecht Durer, twenty-nine (only of fifty) double page woodcut maps, occasional staining, one map wormed along gutter, index bound at rear, text block broken and split, later endpapers, 19th century half vellum with marbled boards, later printed label to spine, folio - Quantity (1)

DÜRER, Albrecht (1471-1528). Underweysung der Messung, mit dem Zirckel und richtscheyt, in Linien Ebnen und gantzen Corporen. Nuremberg: Hieronymus Andreae Formschneider for the widow Agnes Dürer, 1538. 2υo (318 x 202mm). Collation: A-Pυ6 (P3.4 fold-out sheet) Qυ2(2+fold-out sheet signed Q3, Q3+1 advertisement and colophon). 95 leaves. Gothic type. Dürer's large monogram below title, 52 numbered woodcut diagrams to part 1 (lines), 36 numbered diagrams to part 2 (planes), 63 numbered diagrams (56 is a full-sheet fold-out woodcut, diagrams 59 and 61 with pasted-on extensions, as published) to parts 3 and 4 (solids) and 23 woodcuts of letterforms and 8 full-page woodcuts of alphabets in part 3, at the end of the fourth part 4 large woodcuts of artists using apparatus for drawing in perspective (the last 2 and an instrument diagram on the fold-out sheet Q3), ALL ILLUSTRATIONS BY DüRER. Second edition of the first of Dürer's four theoretical writings on art, the famous treatise on geometry and draughtsmanship, revised by the artist shortly before his death and republished by his widow. The last two woodcuts on perspective drawing by mechanical rather than mathematical means are first published in this edition. The work is aimed at painters, sculptors, architects, goldsmiths, stonemasons and other craftsmen. Dodgson I, p. 263; Fairfax Murray German 150; PMM 54 (1525 first edition). [Bound With:] DÜRER. De Symmetria partium in rectis formis humanorum corporum. Translated from German into Latin by Johannes Camerarius. Nuremberg: the widow Dürer, 1532. 2υo. Collation: A-Eυ6 Fυ4 G-Nυ6 Oυ4. 80 leaves, including the final blank. Gothic type. The artist's monogram below title, large woodcut diagrams and illustrations on 72 pages of the proportions of the male and female human figure at all ages. FIRST LATIN EDITION of Books 1 and 2 of Vier Bücher von Menschlicher Proportion (1528), published for the instruction of artists. On the otherwise blank verso of the title is a six-line imperial warning against piracy and unauthorized sale of Dürer's writings. Dodgson I, p. 265; Adams D-1044; Fairfax Murray German 152. [Bound With:] DÜRER. De varietate figurarum et flexuris partium ac gestib. Imaginum. Transl. Johannes Camerarius. Nuremberg: Hieronymus Andreae Formschneider for the widow Dürer, 23rd November 1534. 2υo. Collation: a-dυ6 (a3.4 fold-out sheet) eυ4(4+fold-out sheet signed e5), fold-out sheet signed f, fυ4 g-hυ6 iυ4(3+fold-out sheet signed i4) kυ6. 60 leaves, including the final blank. Gothic type. Woodcut diagrams on 41 pages and fold-out sheets, woodcuts of full-length male and female human figures in motion on 30 pages. FIRST LATIN EDITION of Books 3 and 4 of Vier Bücher von Menschlicher Proportion. At the end of the text are elegies and epitaphs for the artist by Pirckheimer, Hessus and Camerarius (one in Greek). Dodgson I, p. 265; Adams D-1049; Fairfax Murray German 153. [Bound With:] DÜRER. De urbibus, arcibus, castellisque condendis, ac muniendis rationes aliquot. Anonymous Latin translation from the German. Paris: Chrestien Wechel, 1535. 2υo. Collation: aυ6, fold-out sheet signed b, bυ2(2+fold-out sheet signed b3, corrected in early manuscript to b4) cυ4(1+fold-out sheet signed c2), fold-out sheet signed d, dυ2(2+fold-out sheet signed d4) eυ6 fυ4(1+fold-out sheet signed f2) gυ2(1+fold-out sheet signed g2, 2+fold-out sheet signed g4) hυ4(1+fold-out sheet signed h2, 2+fold-out sheet signed h4, 4 blank except for publisher's woodcut device on verso). 50 leaves. Roman type. Woodcut diagrams and plans of fortifications after Dürer on 21 pages and fold-out sheets. FIRST LATIN EDITION of Etliche underricht zu befestigung der Stett, Schloss und flecken (Nuremberg 1527). Adams D-1056. BINDING: contemporary German blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, original brass clasps, (rubbed and slightly stained). Provenance: Adolf von Glauburg (1524-55); Johann Adolf von Glauburg (1556-1611) -- Jacob Marquard von Glauburg (single 17υtυh-century inscription on first title, listing all three Glauburgs as owners, Frankfurt family of jurists) -- I.C.G. Reuss (engraved bookplate dated 1805) -- E.Ph. Goldschmidt (catalogue clipping); Carl H. Pforzheimer of New York (1879-1957) -- Acquired from Bernard Quaritch 1986. IMPORTANT SAMMELBAND CONTAINING THE COMPLETE ILLUSTRATED WORKS BY DüRER ON HIS ARTISTIC METHODS. "The connexion of the beautiful with the natural, of the work of art with what is correct (i.e. mathematical) was a typical concept of the Renaissance. In the illustration of these principles lies the great historical importance of Dürer's theoretical writings They were the foundation of accepted aesthetic dogma until the nineteenth century" (PMM).