[Sixteenth century book]. DIETTERLIN (Wendel). Architectura, - Lot 23

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[Sixteenth century book]. DIETTERLIN (Wendel). Architectura, - Lot 23
[Sixteenth century book]. DIETTERLIN (Wendel). Architectura, von Ausstheilung, Symetria und Proportion der fünff Seulen und allerdarau volgender Kunst Arbeit von Fenstern, Caminen, Thürgerichten, Portalen, Bronnen und Epitaphien... Nürnberg, Hubrecht und Balthasar Caymox, 1598. In-folio, 209 f. (including title and 5 intermediate titles), figs. in contemporary ivory vellum with covers, 5-ribbed spine bordered by a cold fillet, double cold fillet bordering the boards (fillet probably formerly gilt, traces of laces, small restorations, the volume seems to have been formerly re-mounted on tabs and rebound, qq. ff. perhaps from another ex., of which 86; covers stained, accident at foot of one spine; title rebacked, 6 f. restored, about 15 f. stained or browned). First collective edition, largely original. Consisting of four books (Tuscan, Doric, Ionic and Composite orders), only the first two had been published in 1593 and 1594 respectively. The illustration consists of a frontispiece portrait, 5 engraved titles and 196 full-page copper-engraved figures. Provenance: Georg Sigismund Kobelmann (old manuscript bookplate on title); C. Beisbarth, Stuttgart, 1828 (discrete ms. bookplate in title illustration); modern stamp in margin. (Berlin Kat. 1942; USTC 612740).
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