First edition. Copy of the issue with the following earmarks: 1) On t.-p.: comma after "Mancha"; angular italic M in "Miguel"; last line of imprint longer than preceding line. 2) Privilege dated September 26, 1604. 3) Without the additional 8 leaves of "Próloge ́etc. 4) Leaves 8, 18, 183, 285, 310 misprinted, respectively, 7, 15, 182, 289, 311. and Signatures: [paragraph]4A-Qq8*-**4.
Publisher:
Por Iuan de la Cuesta. Vendese en casa de Francisco de Robles, librero del Rey nr̃o sen̄or.
nach der Gepurt Christi.Anno. M.CCCCC.XXvij. Jn dem Manat [!] October [1527]]
Call Number:
1971 Folio 561
Image Count:
52
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Alternative Title:
Etliche Underricht zu Befestigung der Stett, Schloss und Flecken
Description:
Bound with 3 other titles. No. 2 of 4 titles bound together., First edition, 1st issue? with misspelling "Manat" in colophon, and with the large plate of the siege of a fortress (in portfolio); but wanting the list of errata. cf. J. Meder, Dürer-Katalog, 1932, p. 287, no. XXVIII, 1., and Signatures: [*]¹ A-B⁴ C⁶ D⁵ E⁴ F².
Subject (Topic):
Fortification--Early works to 1800 and Military art and science--Early works to 1800
Hierin[n] sind begriffen vier Bücher von menschlicher Proportion and Vier Bücher von menschlicher Proportion
Description:
"Elegia Bilibaldi Pirckeymheri in obitum Alberti Düreri": p. [261]-[262], Bound with 3 other titles. No. 4 of 4 titles bound together., Signatures: A-M⁶ N⁴ O-S⁶ T⁴ V-Z⁶., and Woodcuts of artistic human anatomy throughout.
Publisher:
Gedruckt durch I. Formschneyder, auff Verlegung Albrecht Dürers velassen Witib]
Subject (Topic):
Anatomy, Artistic, Anthropometry, Human figure in art--Early works to 1800, and Proportion (Art)--Early works to 1800
Book of hours (Sarum use) and Hore Beate Marie ad usum ecclesie Sarisburiensis
Description:
Colophon: Explicu[n]t Hore Beate Marie, secundu[m] vsum Sar[um], totaliter ad longum, cu[m] multis pulcherrimis orationibus et indulge[n]tijs iam ultimo abiectis. Impresse Parisijs in edibus Francisci Regnault alme vniuersitatis Parisiensis librarij iurati. Anno Domini millesimo quingentesimo trigesimo. Die vltima Aprilis., Date of publication follows title on t.p., Description based upon incomplete copy at Beinecke Library., Foliation error: leaf clxxvi numbered lxxvi., Imperfect: wanting leaves xli-cxii; slight worming; repair to leaves clxxi and [4] at end. Ms. notes by Sir Thomas More, including the prayer in English written in the Tower before his death. Inscription on front paste-down: Liber quonda[m] Thomae Mori militis in multis locis manu sua propria inscriptus. Bound as no. 1 of 2 titles with: Catholic Church. [Psalter (Sarum use)] Psalterium cum hymnis secundu[m] vsum & co[n]suitudine[m] Sarum et Eboracen[sis]. Paris, 1522. To view other titles, search by call number MS Vault More., In Latin, with some English passages., Regnault's device on 2b4v., Signature error: A1,2 signed B1,2., Signatures: A-C⁸ a-z⁸ &⁸ [con]⁸ 2a⁶ 2b⁴., and Table of contents at end.
Publisher:
Apud Franciscu[m] Regnault, in vico Sancti Jacobi, ad signu[m] Elephantis,
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions--Early works to 1800, More, Thomas, Saint, 1478-1535, and Regnault, François, d. ca. 1540, bookseller
Hieroglyphica. Greek & Latin and Hori Apollinis Selecta hieroglyphica
Description:
"Aenigmata symposii poetae cum scholiis ...": pages 273-303., "Superiorum permissu"--Foot of t.p., Illustrated with 184 woodcuts., Index: p. 265-272., No. 1 of 2 titles bound together., Signatures: A-T⁸., Text in Greek and Latin; 1st five words of title transliterated from Greek., and Woodcuts of emblems intended to represent Egyptian hieroglyphics.
Subject (Name):
Zanetti, Luigi, active 1590-1616, printer.
Subject (Topic):
Egyptian language--Writing, Hieroglyphic--Early works to 1800., Emblems--Early works to 1800., and Symbolism--Early works to 1800.