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DÜRER, Albrecht De Urbibus, Arcibus, castellique condendis, ac muniendis rationes aliquot, praesenti bellorum necessitati ac commodatissimae: nunc recens e lingua Germanica in Latinam traducta. Paris Christian Wechel 1535

First Latin edition and exceptionally fine copy of Dürer’s treatise on fortification, “strictly speaking the first treatise dealing exclusively with this subject” (Krufft), with important material on urban planning and utopianism, bound with an early Latin edition (second issue) of his first book on the theory of art.

[Bound with:] ——————————. Institutiones Geometricarum libris. Paris, Christian Wechel, 1535.

$US11500

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