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).
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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.
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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.
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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).
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).
