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[Architecture - perspective] - MAROLOIS, Samu

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[Architecture - perspective] - MAROLOIS, Samu
[Architecture - perspective] - MAROLOIS, Samuel - La perspective, contenant tant la theorie que la practique et instruction fondamentale d'icelle (...) [bound with] VREDEMAN DE VRIES, J. - La perspective contenant la theorie, practique, et instruction fondamentale. Illustrée ... temples, palais, galeries, iardins, marchez, à l'antique et moderne (...) [enl. ed. Samuel Marolois]. Amsterdam, Joannes Janssonius, 1639, 2 works in 1 vol., folio, contemp. overlapping vellum (front cover and flyleaf loose, spine gone), I: [2]-86-[2] pp., 80 double-page numb. engr. plates (blank L4 preserved, pl. 66 bound upside down; edges of title frayed, tear in I3), II: [2]-42-[2] pp., 76 engr. plates (mostly double-page) (browning, minor traces of use, holes in title, single wormholes through 1st quires). Good copy. Cfr. ill. € 800/1200 I : Very rare complete set of this impressive treatise on perspective in architecture by Samuel Marolois (1572-1627). Engraved title by I. Aelst, engraved plates by i.a. Henricus Hondius, including 6 views of buildings in Rome. Ref. STCN (1: Utrecht copy only !). Not in Goldsmith (BL London), BN Paris, NUC, Matagne (Namur). II : Later ed. by Samuel Marolois of the basic work on perspective by the Dutch architect and artist Vredeman de Vries (fl. 1600). Engr. title, 49 double-page engr. plates (by i.a. Henricus Hondius, dated 1604), a 2nd series of 24 pl. and 2 extra pl. (numbered 3 and 12; pl. 48 and 49 bound upside down, tear in pl. 49). Crowned stamp with monogram of Princess Nadejda Scherbatow, ownership entry on front endpaper deleted. Ref. STCN (1: Amsterdam). NUC (3). Not in Goldsmith (BL London), BN Paris, Matagne (Namur).