Beschreibung:

Dürer, Albrecht Underweysung der messung, mit dem zirckel und richtscheyt, in Linien unnd ganzen corporen. Nuremberg: [Hieronymous Formschneyder,] 1525 Folio (11⅛ x 7½ in.; 282 x 190 mm). Numerous woodcuts in text of geometric diagrams and architectural renderings (two with overslips, one with fore-edge fold at M4, figs. 26 at K1r and 36 at C5v are printed as cancels pasted over the original figures), roman and gothic alphabets, and two half-page woodcuts showing a drafting apparatus for drawing in perspective, the second with Dürer's monogram and dated 1525; some scattered soiling and spotting, dampstaining to upper margins of a few leaves, edges trimmed with slight loss to a few images. Nineteenth-century half brown morocco, spine gilt in six compartments, marbled boards, edges gauffred over red, marbled endleaves; some wear and rubbing to extremities. Half brown morocco clamshell case, spine gilt-lettered.