ausführliche anleitung gantzen civil bau kunst worinnen de daviler augustin charles (4 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Small quarto. [30], 402, [25]pp. )( 2, a1, b4-c4, d2, )( 3-4, A4-Z4, Aa4-Zz4, Aaa4-Ggg4, Hhh2. Title-page in red-and-black. Third edition of L. C. Surm's German language adaptation. Contemporary calf, repaired. With 84 full-page illustrations in the text and 56 double-page plates, all with French captions, numbered sequentially 1-139 (57 used twice). In addition, there are 12 folding plates with German captions, numbered 'Fig. 1 (-12),' to illustrate Sturm's notes and small unnumbered illustrations on pp. 160 (engraved), 361 (woodcut), and 402 (woodcut). Lacks all 56 double-page plates, the last two folding plates and the second plate 57. Millard, Northern European Books I; RIBA, Early Printed Books 164 note.

The second edition of the German translation of "Cours d'architecture qui comprend les ordres de Vignole", a handbook for architects; written by Augustin-Charles d'Aviler (1653-1701), translated and edited by Leonhard Christian Sturm (1669-1719). The copy contains an almost complete set of copper engravings (cross-sections, floor plans, architectural elements etc.): 55 fold-out plates; 85 full-page illustrations and 2 small illustrations on numbered pages; 12 numbered plates (added by the German translator and editor). The frontispiece is missing, the fold-out plate facing p. 228 is missing, the full-page illustration on the p. 43 is almost effaced. Fraktur typeface; pages are decorated with many large tailpieces. The full title and subtitle runs as follows: "Ausführliche Anleitung zu der gantzen Civil-Bau-Kunst, worinnen Nebst denen Lebens-Beschreibungen, und den fünff Ordnungen von J. Bar. de Vignola Wie auch dessen und des berühmten Mich. Angelo vornehmsten Gebäuden, Alles, was in der Baukunst dem Bauzeuge, der Austheilung und der Verzierung nach, so wol bey der Bildhauer, Mahler, Steinmetze, Maurer und Zimmerleute; als Dach-Decker, Schlösser, Tischer, Gärtner u. d. gl. Arbeit an allerley Arten der Gebäude vorkommen mag, berühret, an deutlichen Beyspielen erkläret und mit schönen Rissen erläutert wird." /// Half-leather binding; hardback, [30]+402+[26] pp., [55]+12 plates, 8° (17 x 22 cm), cover heavily worn, boards rubbed, leather cracked and chipped, gilt title and ornament effaced, spine slightly cracked, endpapers slightly yellowed and foxed, front free endpaper and frontispiece missing, pieces of paper pasted over front endpaper and title page, some pages and plates yellowed or slightly foxed, some pages and plates slightly worn, with fingerprints, some plates creased, several pages and plates have tears, several pages and plates slightly chipped (text or illustrations only rarely slightly corrupted), several pages and plates detached, some pages and plates have small ink or water stain, condition: fair Book Language/s: German.

German edition of the "Cours d'architecture", with additional copperplate engravings not included in the edition of 1699 printed in Amsterdam. Engraved frontispiece, 84 full-page, 37 double-page plates,19 folded multipage copperplate engravings and 12 (including 2 double-page) copperplate engravings in the appendix. Collated complete. Quarto, 22.5 x 17 cm., bound in full contemporary mottled calf, the back sometime renewed to style with raised bands gilt ruled, central ornamental pieces gilt, red morocco lettering label gilt, retaining original free-flies, new endleaves added. [30], 402, 25, [1] pp. A pleasing copy, well preserved, the text and copperplate engravings all in crisp and clean condition, the binding strong, very little evidence of overuse, some expected rubbing to the binding's extremities as to be expected. RARE, AND "THE BEST WORK OF ITS KIND YET OFFERED" Fowler. First published in French in 1691, the work was long considered the basis for the architectural history of France. The decorative plates depict buildings by Michelangelo and Vignola. As D'Aviler's book went through the printers it grew wings more large folding plates which he inserted at the last minute, including plans of gardens, palaces and details of ironwork. What had started as an attractive and accessible guide to the Orders, intended to inform clients, artisans and fellow architects, now became a platform for D'Aviler's own architectural ambitions. Further plates were engraved but there was no room in the first edition or a second in 1694 and so, alongside them, D'Aviler prepared drawings for an enlarged edition. Work on the new edition was continued by his son Nicholas Langlois II, who had 'acquired a very large quantity of new Drawings, & Explanations, both from the Author and from several other excellent Architects, Painters & Draftsmen with which to increase & embellish this Work.' The death of the younger Langlois and the sale of the business to a cousin, Jean Mariette, delayed the larger edition of the Cours until 1710. Mariette admired D'Aviler and compiled his biography. He mounted D'Aviler's designs, Boulogne's frontispiece and other architects' drawings for the Cours on sheets in a portfolio, which joined more than 100 others, to make up one of history's greatest collections of drawings. The frontispiece by Louis de Boulogne's shows Architecture appearing as a young woman. She sits leaning on an altar with a Corinthian capital at her feet, compasses in one hand and a portrait of Vignola in the other. Behind her are the ruins of Rome. Louis de Boulogne was the King's Premier peintre, but he was also D'Aviler's close friend and the architect has corrected the painter's perspective at the foot of the altar. Drawing Matter, Richard Emerson Vignola, one of the great Italian architects of 16th century Mannerism, was one of three architects along with Serlio and Palladio who spread the Italian Renaissance style throughout Western Europe. He is often considered the most important architect in Rome in the Mannerist era. His two great masterpieces are the Villa Farnese at Caprarola and the Jesuits' Church of the Gesù in Rome. Tutto Rinascimento, De Agostini. 2011 His two published books helped formulate the canon of classical architectural style. The earliest, Regola delli cinque ordini d'architettura ["Canon of the five orders of architecture"] (first published in 1562, probably in Rome), presented Vignola's practical system for constructing columns in the five classical orders (Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian and Composite) utilising proportions which Vignola derived from his own measurements of classical Roman monuments. The clarity and ease of use of Vignola's treatise caused it to become in succeeding centuries the most published book in architectural history. See Palladio's Literary Predecessors, 2018.

Ca. 22 x 18 cm. Gestochenes Frontispiz, 15 Blätter, 402 Seiten, 13 Blätter (Register), mit 139 gezählten Kupfern (davon 84 ganzseitig im Text, 37 doppelblattgroß auf Tafeln und 19 gefaltete Tafeln) sowie 12 (2 doppelblattgroße) Kupfertafeln im Anhang. Pergamentband der Zeit mit Farbschnitt. Dritte deutsche Ausgabe des bedeutenden Architekturwerkes, gegenüber den ersten 1699 und 1700 in Amsterdam erschienenen Ausgaben in Text und Tafeln vermehrt. Das erstmals 1691 in französischer Sprache erschienene Werk galt lange Zeit als Basis für die Architekturgeschichte Frankreichs. Die dekorativen Tafeln mit Bauten von Michelangelo und Vignola sowie Querschnitten von Gebäuden, Gartenanlagen, Säulenordnungen, Portalen, Deckenornamenten, Balkonen, Sockeln, Kaminen, Öfen, etc. Titel in rot-schwarzem Druck. Einband etwas fleckig, Papier der Innenspiegel teils gerissen (durch das Pergament), Adreßstempel auf Vorsatz, Tafel 23 mit leichter Quetschfalte vom Druck, schwacher Feuchtigkeitsrand auf den Seiten 200 bis 245 (nicht störend). Schönes Exemplar.