Dürer, De urbibus, arcibus, castellisque condendis, Paris, 1535, later half vellum

DÜRER, ALBRECHT

De urbibus, arcibus, castellisque condendis, ac muniendis rationes aliquot, praesenti bellorum necessitate accommodatissimae. Paris: Christian Wechel, 1535

folio (302 x 190mm.), woodcut printer's device on title-page, 9 folding leaves with diagrams, large AD monogram added above errata, title-page laid down onto leaf h6 (containing device only, which now appears on title-page verso), b4 and d4 stained and repaired, first few leaves repaired at lower corner

First Latin edition, translated by Joachim Camerarius. Dürer and Specklin (see lot 424) wrote the only significant German works on fortification in the sixteenth century.

LITERATURE:

Cockle 766; Mortimer, Harvard French 184

PROVENANCE:

Johannes Hillis book, purchase inscription in English below errata dated Maundy Thursday, 29 March 1564; Charles John Shoppee (1823-1897), armorial bookplates (one at front, one at back of volume)