Translation of: Unterweisung der Messung

Translated by Joachim Camerarius

Apparently the 2nd issue, as copies exist with the date 1534. Wechel may have reissued the work to form a set with Dürer's De urbibus and De symmetria, published in 1535; see Harvard College Library. Catalogue of books and manuscripts. French 16th century books

Liber III contains Dürer's expositions on the construction of letters, with many large woodcut specimens of roman capitals

The illustration on pages [174]-[175] (leaves P3 verso and P4 recto) are printed on double leaves

The illustrations on pages 179 (leaf P6 recto) and 181 (leaf Q1 recto) have extensions in the form of tipped-on flaps

Title vignette (the printer's device of a cadeuceus with a winged horse above it); initials

On the last page of text, "185" is printed upside down, not misnumbered "581."

The printer's device also appears on the final page

Signatures: a⁴ A-P⁶ Q⁴ [$3 signed ( -a1,3, Q3)]

Harvard College Library. Catalogue of books and manuscripts. French 16th century books

Brunet, J.-C. Manuel du libraire et de l'amateur de livres (5e éd.)

Short-title catalogue of books printed in France and of French books printed in other countries from 1470 to 1600 now in the British Museum

Mende, Matthias. Dürer-Bibliographie

SCDIRB copy 39088002955292 is bound with: Dürer, Albrecht. Alberti Dureri pictoris et architecti praestantissimi de vrbibvs, arcibus, castellisque condendis, ac muniendis rationes aliquot, præsenti bellorum necessitati. Parisiis: Ex officina Christiani Wecheli, sub scuto Basiliensi, MDXXXV. Probably issued together

SCDIRB copy has bookplate: Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner

SCDIRB copy has a Deutsche Bundespost 10 Pfennig stamp (green, with a portrait of Dürer) mounted on the front paste-down endpaper

SCDIRB copy has a tear in leaf h4 (a folded illustration), which has been clumsily repaired

SCDIRB copy has an old (contemporary?) blind-tooled full leather binding with raised bands. Blank filler leaves (15 at front and 18 at back) have been bound in. A later binder's title has been inked on the spine in yellow: Institut. Geomet. Housed in a modern linen-covered clamshell box with printed brown paper spine label

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