Dürer, De urbibus... condendis, Paris, 1535, and Cataneo, De arte bellica, Geneva, 1600, 2 volumes

DÜRER, ALBRECHT AND GIROLAMO CATANEO

Two works in Latin on fortification, comprising:

i. Dürer, Albrecht. De urbibus, arcibus, castellisque condendis, ac muniendis rationes aliquot, praesenti bellorum necessitate accommodatissimae. Paris: Christian Wechel, 1535, folio (307 x 195mm.), woodcut printer's device on title-page, 7 folding leaves with diagrams, eighteenth-century calf-backed boards, bookplate of W.C. Mylne, [Cockle 766; Mortimer, Harvard French 184], lacking c2 and g2 (both folding leaves) and h6 (containing device only), damp-stained

ii. Cataneo, Girolamo. De arte bellica. [Geneva]: Jean de Tournes, 1600, 4to (237 x 169mm.), title within woodcut border, woodcut illustrations (some double-page), 4 folding woodcut plates (one double-sided), contemporary vellum, Sunderland Library, Blenheim Palace bookplate (added by Quaritch), sale, Puttick & Simpson, December 1881, lot 2359; bought from Bernard Quaritch, catalogue 630, no. 49, £10, [USTC 451682]

together 2 volumes

For another copy of Dürer's work, see lot 130, and for other translations of Cataneo's text, see lots 74 and 75.