Lot 3837: Vredeman de Vries, Jan ( c . 1527-1606?). , Architectura, oder Bauung der Antiquen auss dem Vitruvius: woellches sein funff Collummen ordern, daer auss mann alle Landts gebreuch vonn Bauuen zu accommodieren. Antwerp: Geerhardt de Jode, 1581 , [16

Ibid. Architectura 3e stuck. De oorden Tuschana, in tween ghedeylt in XII. stucken. Antwerp: [Hieronymus Cock], 1578 , [2]pp., illustration : 12 engraved plates, [Hollstein xlviii 442-453] Ibid. Das ander Buech gemacht auff die zway Colonnen, Corinthia und composita sampt Fren Podien, Basen, Cornien [etc.]. Antwerp: H. Cock, 1581 , [2]pp., illustration : 40 engraved plates, [Hollstein xlvii 183-222] 3 works in one volume, folio (362 x 275mm.), binding : contemporary calf gilt, papered over at a later date , fore-edge of first title-page repaired, a few small holes (paper flaws) in plates, paper rubbing off boards

first edition of the second work. Vredeman de Vries worked as city architect in Antwerp, assisting with the fortifications of the city. The third work in this volume includes the 18 plates of Den eersten Boeck; both were first published in 1565. The first work was first published in 1577.