THURAH, Laurids de (1706-1759). Den Danske Vitruvius. Copenhagen: Ernst Heinrich Berling, 1746-1749. 2 volumes in one, 2° (460 x 300mm). Parallel title and text in Danish, French and German (the text in three vertical columns). 281 engraved plates, 15 folding. (Small neat repair to verso of title, small tear to fold of first plate.) FINE EARLY-19TH-CENTURY DANISH BINDING FROM THE WORKSHOP OF NIELS ANTHON, gilt-tooled straight-grained red morocco over pasteboard, a ribbon forming variously shaped compartments on the covers and spine, these shapes filled with tools of flowers, foliage, vases. etc., gilt turn-ins, blue watered-silk liners, blue glazed free-endpapers, flyleaves watermarked 'J.Whatman', g.e. (slight scuffing, joints very slightly rubbed), modern cloth box. FIRST EDITION. A splendid example of a Danish binding. Other similar designs are known on 3 copies of Slange and Gram's Den Stormaegtigste Konges Christian des Fierdes, Konges til Danmark og Norge, Histoire (Copenhagen, 1749): one dated from circa 1820 (lot 203 these rooms 24 June 1992); the second was bound in the workshop of Niels's father, master bookbinder Peter Anthon (now in an English private collection); the third was produced in the late 18th century in Niels's shop (Library of Congress; see Dorothy Miner's Baltimore exhibition catalogue no.448, pl. 88). These three bindings, spanning over half a century, share a number of common tools and are considered to be Mästarband or examination bindings produced to a set design. As the present binding is considerably larger than the others, and in view of the relative importance of the contents, it seems probable that this example is not the work of an apprentice, but is the work of the Master himself. Berlin Kat 2259; Cicognara 4115.
THURAH, Laurids de (1706-1759). Den Danske Vitruvius. Copenhagen: Ernst Heinrich Berling, 1746-1749. 2 volumes in one, 2° (460 x 300mm). Parallel title and text in Danish, French and German (the text in three vertical columns). 281 engraved plates, 15 folding. (Small neat repair to verso of title, small tear to fold of first plate.) FINE EARLY-19TH-CENTURY DANISH BINDING FROM THE WORKSHOP OF NIELS ANTHON, gilt-tooled straight-grained red morocco over pasteboard, a ribbon forming variously shaped compartments on the covers and spine, these shapes filled with tools of flowers, foliage, vases. etc., gilt turn-ins, blue watered-silk liners, blue glazed free-endpapers, flyleaves watermarked 'J.Whatman', g.e. (slight scuffing, joints very slightly rubbed), modern cloth box. FIRST EDITION. A splendid example of a Danish binding. Other similar designs are known on 3 copies of Slange and Gram's Den Stormaegtigste Konges Christian des Fierdes, Konges til Danmark og Norge, Histoire (Copenhagen, 1749): one dated from circa 1820 (lot 203 these rooms 24 June 1992); the second was bound in the workshop of Niels's father, master bookbinder Peter Anthon (now in an English private collection); the third was produced in the late 18th century in Niels's shop (Library of Congress; see Dorothy Miner's Baltimore exhibition catalogue no.448, pl. 88). These three bindings, spanning over half a century, share a number of common tools and are considered to be Mästarband or examination bindings produced to a set design. As the present binding is considerably larger than the others, and in view of the relative importance of the contents, it seems probable that this example is not the work of an apprentice, but is the work of the Master himself. Berlin Kat 2259; Cicognara 4115.
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