Perspective, id est, Celeberrima ars inspicientis aut transpicientis oculorum aciei
Subtitle: in pariete, tabula aut tela depicta, in qua demonstrantur quaedam tam antiqua, quam nova aedificia, templorum, sive aedium, aularum, cubicularum, ambulaciorum, platearum, xystorum, hortorum, fororum, viarum et hujusmodi alia, quae nituntur suis fondamentalibus lineis, quorum fondamentum descriptionibus clare exsplicatur, perutilis ac necessaria, omnibus pictoribus, sculptoribus, statuariis, fabriferrariis, architectis, inventoribus, cæmentariis, scrinariis, fabrilignariis, & omnibus artium amatoribus, qui huic arti operam dare volent, majori cum voluptate, & minori cum labore
By: auctore Ioanne Vredeman Frisio ; Henric. Hondivs scvlps. et excvd
Publisher: Hendrik Hondius
Published: 1604
Place of publication: Lvgdvni Batavorum
Language: lat
Number of pages: 49
Subjects: Perspective; Early works to 1800; Architectural drawing
Other titles: Celeberrima ars inspicientis aut transpicientis oculorum aciei.
Notes: Vol. 2 has title: Perspective, pars altera : in qua præstantissima quæque artis præcepta, nec non eximia ac scitu digniora argumenta circa magnifica aliquot aedificia et praeclara architecturae decora plene planeque exhibentur : addita brevi sed dilucida linearum ac fundamentorum descriptione : in gratiam ingeniosorum studiosorumque hominum publicata / auctore Iohanne Vredemanno Frisio ; Henric. Hondivs scvlps. et excvd.

Colophon, v. 1, p. [19]: Hagæ-Comitis, Ex officina Bucoldi Nieulandii, sumptibus Henrici Hondii, 1604. V. 2, p. [6]: Lvgdvni ad Rhenvm, Henricvs Hondivs cælator, anno 1605.

The 1st ed., with the plates for the most part engraved by Hondius. However, plates 8, 10, 19, and 21 (v. 2) are signed: B.D. (or D.B.?) sculp. Most of the plates whose design is credited are after Vredeman de Vries, except no. 14 (v. 2), which is signed: P.V. inu. H︠h︡ondius sculp., and the ports. of Maurice, Prince of Orange (v. 1, p. [3]) and of Vredeman de Vries (v. 1, p. [5]), which Hondius both drew and engraved. These last are dated 1599 and 1604 respectively. For the problematical identity of B.D., cf. Mielke.

Mielke, H. Hans Vredeman de Vris, XXXI, Teile 1-2