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Desz Circkelsz und Richtscheyts, auch Perspectiva, und Proportion der Menschen und Rosse, kurtze, doch gruendtliche underweisung desz rechten gebrauchs.- Francfort: Egenolff Emmel for Simon Schamberger, 1618. In-folio (303 x 192 mm) (8), 54 Bll., with title in black and red, 107 text woodcuts incl. 3 folding plates. Later red maroquin in style of Duseuil, gilt edges, carefully washed and newly bound copy (Devauchelle).

Very fine copy of the second edition of a highly important drawing book, here with the same collation as the first edition of 1564 (Vagnetti mentions an edition of 1616 which we could not trace), richly and beautifully illustrated, based on Albrecht Dürer's work on human anatomy, Vier Bücher von menschlicher Proportion, and his treatise on perspective, Vnderweysung der Messung dem Zirkel, with an added chapter on the anatomy of the horse with three woodcuts. A very fine German woodcut book presenting linear geometry, perspective and human proportion; the last section includes unusual woodcuts illustrating the human body with lines and cubes. The one hundred and seven text woodcuts (including three folding plates) show simple design of polyhedrons, perspective of architectural details including facades, wells, arches, and elaborate human figures (infants and adults) in various positions as well as horses. The goldsmith and painter Heinrich Lautensack (1522-1590) followed Hirschvogel’s style of making perspective images in his 1564 work: Des Circkels unnd Richtscheyts, auch der Perspectiva, und Proportion der Menschen und der Rosse,… (= Brief yet thorough introduction to the correct use of compass and ruler, and of perspective, and proportions in human and horses). Lautensack stressed the importance of knowing geometry and illustrated its use in, among other things, perspective constructions. He applied a simple method similar to Hirschvogel’s. He also illustrated how the image of a pavement of square tiles can be used as (to apply a modern term) a coordinate system in the picture plane (Andersen. the Geometry of an Art, 222).- Vagnetti, EIIb19; Kat. Berlin 4691 (1564 ed.); Adams, L-290; Rosenwald, 702; Choulant/Frank 358.- KVK: Harvard Medical School, NLM Bethesda, et al.

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