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Des fortifications et artifices : architecture et perspectiue
- Title
- Des fortifications et artifices : architecture et perspectiue / de Iaques Perret gentilhomme sauoysien.
- Author
- Perret, Jacques, gentilhomme savoysien.
- Publication
- [Paris : Iaques Perret, 1601].
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | By appointment only | Spencer Coll. French 1601 83-47 | Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308 |
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- Additional Authors
- Leu, Thomas de, active 1576-1614.
- Description
- [20] leaves, [45] leaves of plates : chiefly ill.; 43 cm. (fol.)
- Subjects
- Note
- References: For variations see: Brunet, IV, 511; Graesse, V, 207; Duportal: Livres à figures, 1601-1633, no. 3 (21 plates incl. t.p.); Robert-Dumesnil, X, 76-95 (t.p. and 19 plates in different order lettered A-I² K), 96; Bibliothèque nationale, Paris. Dépt. des estampes: Inventaire du fonds français. Gravures du seizième siècle, I, 476-482, no. 58-79.
- Dedication "Au Roy" (leaf [1]) signed "De Paris ce premier de Iuillet 1601, Iaques Perret de Chambery." Privilege granting publication rights to the author: leaf [20].
- Comprises engraved illustrated t.p. (with vignette of the Siege of Paris, 1594) and 22 double-page engravings by Thomas de Leu after Perret's designs; 18 leaves of explanatory letterpress (5 have text also on verso); dedication and privilege.
- For reproduction of plate depicting a building of 9 stories capable of lodging "500 personnes à leur aise" (in Spencer Coll. copy: no. [21]; see also nos. [9-10], [22]) see: Architektur, die nicht gebaut wurde / Josef Ponten. Stuttgart : Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1925. v. 2, fig. 72.
- Call Number
- Spencer Coll. French 1601 83-47
- OCLC
- NYPG83-B29712
- Author
- Perret, Jacques, gentilhomme savoysien.
- Title
- Des fortifications et artifices : architecture et perspectiue / de Iaques Perret gentilhomme sauoysien.
- Imprint
- [Paris : Iaques Perret, 1601].
- Local Note
- In this copy the plates, without the letters noted by Robert-Dumesnil and the Bibliothèque nationale, are arranged as follows: 5 pairs of plates depicting forts and fortified cities, each shown as perspective view and as plan; 2 plates depicting fortification designs and military devices; and 10 plates depicting various public and private buildings, each shown as plan, perspective view and cross-section.Binding, contemporary, of vellum.Provenance: Gräflich Erbach-Erbach und Wartenberg-Rothsche Hofbibliothek, Erbach (stamp).
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- Added Author
- Leu, Thomas de, active 1576-1614.
- Research Call Number
- Spencer Coll. French 1601 83-47