DURER, INSTITUTIONES GEOMETRICAE, PARIS, 1532, AND OTHER WORKS, NINETEENTH-CENTURY BINDING

Quatuor his suarum institutionum geometricarum libris, lineas, superficies & solida corpora tractavit [translated by Joachim Camerarius]. Paris: Christian Wechel, 5 August 1532, woodcut printer's device on title-page and final verso (otherwise blank), woodcut initials and illustrations (with pasted extensions on P6 and Q1), early manuscript annotations in a fine humanist hand, a few small paper repairs to title-page and to margin of the next few leavesDe urbibus, arcibus, castellisque condendis, ac muniendis rationes aliquot [translated by Joachim Camerarius]. Paris: Christian Wechel, 1535, woodcut printer's device on title-page and final verso (otherwise blank), woodcut initials and illustrations (some double-page)De symmetria patrium humanorum corporum libri quatuor [translated by Joachim Camerarius]. Paris: Charles Perier, 1557, woodcut printer's device on title-page, woodcut initials and headpieces, woodcut illustrations (one folding), o2v with replacement woodcuts pasted over, early notes in Italian on b4v, some browning, spotting and staining, a few small paper repairs 3 works in one volume, folio (330 x 215mm.), nineteenth-century green calf-backed marbled boards with vellum corners

"Em. & Amic. --", early inscription in red beneath colophon of first work; Antonio Carradori dei Flamini, inscription on first title-page (plausibly Conte Antonio Carradori Flamini, of Recanati, 1814-1882)

BP16 106935, 107841; Mortimer, Harvard French 182, 184, 185

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FIRST LATIN EDITIONS of two of Dürer's works on perspective, military architecture and the human body; the latter is probably the third edition of Camerarius's translation. The woodcuts are close copies of those from the original German printings of 1525, 1527 and 1528 respectively.