Albertvs Dvrervs Nvrembergensis pictor hvivs aetatis celeberrimus, versus è Germanica lingua in Latinam
Subtitle: pictoribus, fabris aerariis ac lignariis, lapicidis, statuariis, & vniuersis demum qui circino, gnomone, libella, aut alioqui certa mensura opera sua examinant, propè necessarius, adeò exactè : quatuor his suaru[m] Institutionum geometricarum libris, lineas, superficies & solida corpora tractauit, adhibitis designationibus ad eam rem accommodatissimis : denuo ad scripti exemplaris fidem omnia diligenter recognita, emendatius iam in lucem exeunt
Publisher: Ex officina Christiani Wecheli, sub scuto Basiliensi
Published: 1535
Place of publication: Parisiis
Language: lat
Number of pages: 581
Subjects: Lettering; Early works to 1800; Perspective; Measurement
Other titles: Albertus Durerus Nurembergensis pictor huius aetatis celeberrimus, versus è Germanica lingua in Latinam; Institutionum geometricarum libri quatuor
Work titles: Unterweisung der Messung
Notes: Apparently the 2nd issue, as copies exist with the date 1534. Wechel may have reissued the work to form a set with Dürer's De urbibus and De symmetria, published in 1535; see Mortimer.

Lib. III contains Dürer's exposition on the construction of letters, with many large specimens of capitals in various styles.

The ill. on P6r and Q1r have extensions in the form of tipped-on flaps.

Wechel's Pegasus device on t.p. and on leaf at end.

Signatures: a⁴ A-P⁶ Q⁴.

Mortimer, R.  French 16th cent. 183

Signature at foot of t.p. in Getty copy: Joannis a Landa & a Domen et amicorum. Marginal annotations in French, p. 151-156. Final leaf wanting.

Binding: modern decorated paper, quarter vellum.