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[JAMNITZER, Wenzel (1507/1508-1585)]

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£ 10 000
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14.12.2022 10:30UTC +01:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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ID 870720
Lot 137 | [JAMNITZER, Wenzel (1507/1508-1585)]
[JAMNITZER, Wenzel (1507/1508-1585)]

Perspectivae Sintagma, in quo Varia Eximiaque corporum diagrammata ex praescripto Opticae exhibitur. Amsterdam: Johannes Janssonius, 1626.

Very rare edition of the famous Perspectiva Corporum Regularium, a treatise on perspective first published in Nuremberg in 1568, and illustrated with remarkable plates. Jamnister, a goldsmith from Nuremberg, was one of the best perspective theoreticians of his time. The present book is in its third and last edition, and is almost exclusively devoted to polyhedrons, both regular and irregular. It follows the example given by Pacioli in his Divina Proportione (Venice, 1508), and is illustrated with plates from the original edition. These are engraved on copper by Jost Amman (some are signed ‘I.A.’ and dated 1567) after Jamnitzer. This edition is missing from the British Library, Library of Congress, and the Bibliotheque Nationale de France. Cf. Kat. Berlin 4693 for the first edition of 1568 and Cicognara 859 for the second of 1618).



Small folio (258 x 178mm). Engraved architectonic title, 2 leaves of letterpress text, 2 folding engraved plates comprising ‘Schenographie’ and a model of an allegorical title page with the legends ‘Arithmetica, Geometria, Diligentia, Architectura, Perspectiva, Inclinatio’, and 49 plates numbered A-G6 H4 I3 (title cut-down and mounted, text leaves trimmed at head almost touching first line of text on A2v, plate A1 bound in upside-down, tiny marginal chips to plates B6 and F4, small dampstain in the blank margin of the last 7 plates, small stain in the margin of plate F2, some occasional light spotting). Modern red crushed morocco signed by Françoise Le Boulenger and G. Berthaux Gilder, gilt spine (extremities only very faintly rubbed).





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