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Albertvs Dvrervs Nvrembergensis pictor hvivs aetatis celeberrimus, versus è Germanica lingua in Latinam : pictoribus, fabris aerariis ac lignariis, lapicidis, statuariis, & vniuersis demum qui circino, gnomone, libella, aut alioqui certa mensura opera sua examinant, propè necessarius, adeò exactè : quatuor his suaru[m] Institutionum geometricarum libris, lineas, superficies & solida corpora tractauit, adhibitis designationibus ad eam rem accommodatissimis : denuo ad scripti exemplaris fidem omnia diligenter recognita, emendatius iam in lucem exeunt

by: Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528

Publication date: 1535

Topics: Perspective -- Early works to 1800, Measurement -- Early works to 1800, Lettering -- Germany -- Early works to 1800, Lettering, Measurement, Perspective, Germany

Publisher: Parisiis : Ex officina Christiani Wecheli, sub scuto Basiliensi

Collection: getty; americana

Contributor: Getty Research Institute

Language: Latin

[8], 581 [i.e. 185], [3] p. : 34 cm. (fol.)

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 Mortimer

Lib. III contains Dürer's exposition on the construction of letters, with many large specimens of capitals in various styles

The ill. on P6r and Q1r have extensions in the form of tipped-on flaps

Wechel's Pegasus device on t.p. and on leaf at end

Signatures: a⁴ A-P⁶ Q⁴