Samuelis Marolois, mathematicorum sui seculi facile principis, Mathematicum opus absolutissimum
Subtitle: continens geometriae, fortificationis, architecturae, & perspectivae theoreticae ac practicae regulas, demonstrationes, & figuras perfectissimas
By: studio atque opera Alberti Girardi, mathematici cl., recognitum ac multis notis illustratum
Contributors: Girard, Albert, 1595-1632; Vredeman de Vries, Hans, 1527-approximately 1604; Vredeman de Vries, Hans, 1527-ca. 1604; Vredeman de Vries, Paul, b. 1567; Akersloot, Willem Outgersz., ca. 1600-ca. 1651; Hondius, Hendrik, 1573-; Stevens, Pieter, approximately 1567-
Publisher: Sumptibus ac typis Ioannis Ianssonii
Published: 1633
Place of publication: Amstelodami
Language: lat
Subjects: Fortification; Early works to 1800; Perspective; Geometry; Orders; Architecture
Other titles: Mathematicum opus absolutissimum; Samvelis Marolois, mathematicorvm svi secvli facile principis, Mathematicvm opvs absolvtissimvm
Notes: Each vol. has separate t.p.: [1]. Geometria theoretica ac practica -- [2]. Artis muniendi, sive fortificationis pars prima[-secunda, with additional separate t.p.] -- [3]. Ioannis Vredemanni Frisii ... Architectura, continens quinque ornamenta architecturae ... -- [4]. Perspectiva theoretica ac practica ... studio atque opera Ioannis Vredemanni Frissii -- [5]. Opticae, sive perspectivae pars prima.

Main title within engraved border signed by W. Akersloot. All plates double-page. Some in v. [3]-[5] signed by Hendrik Hondius. Those for Vredemann de Vries's Architectura in part after Paul de Vries as well as Vredeman. Four plates in the 24-plate continuation of de Vries's Perspectiva signed BD (interpretation uncertain; see Milke). Plates 53-59 (v. [5]) are views. They bear the additional numbers CLXXXIIII-CXC and are signed by Hondius (nos. 54-59 after Petrus Stephanus). All added t.p.'s have Jansson's woodcut device, signed PHS. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces, initials.

v. [1]. [6], 51 p., 42, 5 plates -- v. [2]. Pt. 1: 39 p. Pt. 2: 40 p., [1] (table), 40 [i.e. 42] plates -- v. [3]. [20] p., [40] plates -- v. [4]. [2], 15 p., 49 [i.e. 50], 24 plates -- v. [5]. [2], 50 p., 51, 53-80 (overlay, plate 5).

Mielke, H.  Vredeman de Vries, XXXI Teil 2 (9), XXXII (7)

Binding: later marbled paper. Page edges marbled.