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    • Ryff, Der Architectur, Nuremberg, 1558, contemporary pigskin over wooden boards
      Oct. 11, 2023

      Ryff, Der Architectur, Nuremberg, 1558, contemporary pigskin over wooden boards

      Est: $15,000 - $18,000

      Ryff, Walther Hermann. Der Architectur furnembsten notwendigsten angehörigen Mathematischen vnd Mechanischen künst eygentlicher bericht vnd verstendliche vnterrichtung, zu rechtem Verstandt der Lehre Vitruvii, in drey fürneme Bücher abgetheilet. Nuremberg: Gabriel Hain, 1558 Second edition of Ryff’s Eigentlicher Bericht, a compilation of the most important art-theoretical texts of the Italian Renaissance, and of works in the surrounding disciplines of geometry, perspective, fortification, and ballistics, interpreted and redacted for a German audience. “Ryff’s idea was to complete the areas that the De architectura didn’t deal with or took up briefly; thus he added to Vitruvius’s teachings those of his contemporaries who were the most capable of bringing the antique treatise up to date” (Yves Pauwels, CESR “Architectura” database). Julius Schlosser considered this “the true Bible of the German late Renaissance” (Die Kunstliteratur, Vienna, 1924, pp. 243–244 [“die wahre Bibel der deutschen Spätrenaissance”]). The author (Gualtherius Hermenius Rivius; ca 1500/1515–1548) had published at Strassburg in 1543 a Latin edition of Vitruvius sparsely illustrated with woodcuts taken from the Giocondo (1511, and derivatives) and Cesariano (1521) editions. Within a year after his arrival in Nuremberg, he had published two fully-illustrated books: an introduction to the architectural orders, Der fünff maniren der Colonen, and the Eigentlicher Bericht, both at the press of Johann Petreius. In 1548, Petreius issued Ryff’s masterwork, Vitruvius Teutsch, the first German translation of Vitruvius. This second edition of the Eigentlicher Bericht was published by Gabriel Hain, son-in-law of Petreius; a third edition appeared at Basel in 1582. Ryff utilized the most recent architectural literature. His “Das erste Theil des Ersten Buchs” and “Der ander Theil des ersten Buchs der newen Perspectiua,” on the use of the compass and ruler and on perspectival construction, are based on Serlio’s Le premier livre d’architecture and Le second livre de perspective, both published in Paris in 1545. Ryff’s “Das drit Buch der newen Perspectiua” is an edited version of books II–III of Alberti’s De Pictura, first printed in Basel in 1540 (see lot 2); “Der II theil des dritten Buchs der newen Perspectiua” is his translation of Pomponio Gaurico’s De sculptura (Florence 1504; reprinted Nuremberg 1542). Many of the 328 woodcuts illustrating the Eigentlicher Bericht are copied from Cesariano’s Vitruvius; others come from the treatises by Dürer, Philandrier’s commentary on Vitruvius (1544), Tartaglia’s Quesiti, et inventioni diverse (1546), Reinhard de Solms’ Ein kürtzer Auszug und überschlag … (1535), and Oronce Fine’s Liber de geometria practica (published in Germany 1543, 1544). The woodcuts in this book (identical in the first and this second edition) are attributed to Peter Flötner (ca 1486/1495–1546) and/or Virgil Solis (1514–1562), with small numbers credited to Hans Brosamer, Georg Pencz, and Hans Springinklee. The binding is decorated by two heads-in-medallion rolls, the broader one with labelled portraits of the Reformers Martin Luther, Jan Hus, and Philipp Melanchthon (no comparable roll is described by Haebler, or in the Einbanddatenbank). A gilt armorial stamp of two crossed keys surmounted by spread-winged bicephalic eagle, the insignia of the city of Minden, near Hanover, was impressed at a later date, presumably after 1627, when the Emperor Ferdinand II granted Minden the privilege of displaying as a sign of imperial protection the double-headed eagle together with the crossed keys, the symbol of the Prince-Bishopric of Minden. Four parts, folio (306 x 194 mm). Roman type, 52 lines plus headline. collation: *4 A–Z4 AA–BB4; Aa–Mm4 AA–LL4; a–n4 (n4 blank); A–E4 AA–CC4 (CC4 blank): 280 leaves. Title-page printed in red and black, 328 (50 full-page) woodcut text illustrations s printed from 301 blocks by Virgil Solis, Peter Flötner, Hans Brosamer, and others, Hain's large woodcut device on CC3v. (Some scattered browning.) binding: German pigskin over wooden boards (322 x 208 mm), ca. 1558, decorated in blind with portrait rolls (Luther, Melanchthon, Jan Hus), later gilt oval armorial stamp in center (town of Minden?), spine with four full bands, 6 line title in ink in upper compartment, two metal clasps, plain edges with two thumb tabs. (Light rubbing and soiling.) provenance: Supralibros, gilt arms of Minden (two crossed keys surmounted by spread-winged bicephalic eagle), inscribed “Architektur” in brown ink on upper cover (unidentified) — Bonhams & Butterfields, San Francisco, 17 October 2006, lot 3243. acquisition: Purchased from Erasmushaus / Haus der Bücher, Basel, 2011.  references: VD16 ZV 13481 / VD16 R 4002; USTC 632815; Benzing, Ryff, no. 191.

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    • ARTEMIDORUS. Troumbüchlin. 1555. Lacks the 12-leaf index + CARDANO, GIROLAMO. Traumbuch. 1563. Lacks title and next 12 preliminaries.
      Apr. 12, 2016

      ARTEMIDORUS. Troumbüchlin. 1555. Lacks the 12-leaf index + CARDANO, GIROLAMO. Traumbuch. 1563. Lacks title and next 12 preliminaries.

      Est: $400 - $600

      ARTEMIDORUS. Troumbüchlin. German translation by Walther Hermann Ryff, with preface excerpted from writings on dreams by Philipp Melanchthon. [40], 223 pages; lacks the 12-leaf index. 4to, 197x156 mm, later paste-paper boards, spine ends chipped, front joint cracked, cords intact; marginal foxing and dampstaining, occasional soiling, blank portion torn from bottom of title page. Strassburg: Samuel Emmel, 1555

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    • Torrentino, Hermano (van der Beke, Herman)
      Jun. 04, 2015

      Torrentino, Hermano (van der Beke, Herman)

      Est: €300 - €400

      Elucidario Poetico… raccolto per Hermano Torrentino Venezia, presso Giorgio de Caualli, 1565. In 8°. Legatura in pergamena coeva

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