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Etliche underricht zu befestigung der Stett Schloss und Flecken (Treatise on the Fortification of City, Castle, and Places)
Illustrated by: Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528)
Author: Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528)
Printer: Hieronymus Andreae (German, died in 1556)
Author: Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528)
Printer: Hieronymus Andreae (German, died in 1556)
1527
Place of Publication: Nuremberg, Germany
Medium/Technique
Illustrated book with numerous woodcut diagrams and plans
Dimensions
Overall: 32.4 x 22.2 x 4 cm (12 3/4 x 8 3/4 x 1 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Samuel Putnam Avery Fund
Accession Number38.1618.2
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Nuremberg: Hieronymus Andreae, 1527
Catalogue Raisonné
Meder Books XXVIII, 1527, first edition; Murray, German, 151.
Description(Nuremberg: Hieronymus Andreae, 1527) Folio; 36 leaves [lacking plate with large aerial view]; contemporary pigskin, tooled with rolls of classical motifs and single tools around central compartment with decorative foliage around repeated single tool, brass clasps (tan cloth box).
BOUND with Dürer, Underweysung der Messung (Nuremberg: 1525) [38.1618.2]
BOUND with Dürer, Underweysung der Messung (Nuremberg: 1525) [38.1618.2]
ProvenanceOld library inscription on title of Underweysung; inscription inside upper cover ("Given to Dr. Lautensack [Lautenspek?] by Mother Jan 3rd 1905"); Goodspeed's Bookshop, Boston, from whom purchased by MFA, November 10, 1938.