Albertus Durerus Nurembergensis pictor huius aetatis celeberrimus, versus è Germanica lingua in Latinam, pictoribus, fabris aerariis ac lignariis, lapicidis, statuariis, & vniuersis demum qui circino, gnomone, libella, aut alioqui certa mensura opera sua examinant, propè necessarius
Subtitle: adeò exactè. Quatuor his suaru[m] institutionum geometricarum libris, lineas, superficies & solida corpora tractauit, adhibitis designationibus ad eam rem accommodatissimis
By: Denuo ad scripti exemplaris fidem omnia diligenter recognita, emendatius iam in lucem exeunt
Contributors: Wechel, Chrestien, 1495-1554, printer; Wechel, family of printers, printer; American Type Founders Company. Typographic Library and Museum
Publisher: Ex officina Christiani Wecheli ...
Published: 1535
Place of publication: Parisiis
Language: lat
Translated from: ger
Number of pages: 581
Subjects: Measurement; Early works to 1800; Lettering; Geometrical drawing
Other titles: Albertus Durerus Nurembergensis pictor huius aetatis celeberrimus, versus è Germanica lingua in Latinam, pictoribus, fabris aerariis ac lignariis, lapicidis, statuariis, & uniuersis 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; Quatuor institutionum geometricarum libri; Albertvs Dvrervs Nvrembergensis Pictor Hvivs aetatis celeberrimus, versus è Germanica lingua in Latinam :; Institutionum geometricarum.
Work titles: Unterweisung der Messung
Notes: Page 185 misnumbered 581.

Diagrams on p. 179 and 181 extended on slips.

Lib. III contains Dürer's expositions on the construction of letters, with many large woodcut specimens of roman capitals.

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

Rare Book copy: G2 (p.75-76) torn without loss of text.

Rare Book copy: From the Typographic Library and Museum of the American Type Founders Company with its label on front pastedown.