Entrée principale:

Vredeman de Vries, Hans, 1527-approximately 1604.

Titre et auteur:

Perspective, c'est a dire, le tresrenommé art du poinct oculaire d'vne veuë dedans où travers regardante, estant sur vne muraille vnie, sur vn tableau, ou sur dela toile, en laquelle y ayt quelques edifices, soyt d'eglises, temples, palais, sales, chambres, galeries, places, allées, jardins, marchés & ruës, a l'antique ou moderne, & autres telles choses icy demonstrées, le tout posé sur les lignes fondamentales, & le fondement d'icelles clairement expliquées par descriptions, fort vtile & necessaire, pour tous peintres, tailleurs en cuivre, imaginaires, orfevres, architectes, ingenieurs, tailleurs de pierre, menusiers, charpentiers, & tous amateurs des arts, pour y estudier a leur plaisir, avec peu de peine / inventé par Ioan Vredeman Frison.

Publication:

A la Haye : Chez Beuckel Nieulandt pour Henry Hondius demeurant a Leyden, [1604-1605]

Description:

2 parts in 1 volume : illustrations ; 30 x 39 cm

Notes:
"Henric. Hondius sculps. et excud. cum privill. Lugduni Batavorum."
Published simultaneously in Dutch, French, German and Latin.
Imprint from pt. 1, colophon. Pt. 2, colophon has imprint: A Leyden : Chez Henri Hondius, tailleur en cuyvre, anno 1605.
Pt. 1: [22] p., 49 [i.e. 48] leaves of plates; pt. [2]: [8] p., 24 p. of plates. Each pt. has its own engraved title plate (for pt. 1, title following "Perspective" is in letterpress in an engraved frame). Pt. 1 includes a total of 48 plates numbered 1-49, with no. "33" and "34" referring to the same plate.
Avery Classics copy: Bound with three other titles on perspective.
NNC
Rare Book copy: Some plates misbound, either at the wrong side or upside down.
Avery Classics copy: Includes one set of plates for part 1, presumably inteded to be used with the first parts of both the French and German editions, here bound together.
Avery Classics copy: Includes plates numbered 3[y or square root sign] and 12[y or square root sign].
Hollstein's Dutch & Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700, v. 48, 517-591
National Gallery of Art (U.S.). The Mark J. Millard architectural collection, c1993-c2000, v. 3, no. 139
British Architectural Library. Early Imprints Collection. Early printed books, 1478-1840, c1994-, 3553
Also available electronically.

Expositions:

Exhibited: "M.C. Escher: landscapes to mindscapes", Musée des beaux-arts, Ottawa, Dec. 1, 1995-Mar. 17, 1996.

Sujet:

Vredeman de Vries, Hans, 1527-ca. 1604
Perspective Early works to 1800.
Perspective Ouvrages avant 1800.
Perspective.
Dutch Architects.
Dutch Designers.

Classification/genre:

Early works.

Vedettes secondaires:

Hondius, Hendrik, 1573-1650.
Nieulandt, Beuckel Cornelissz, printer.
Hondius, Hendrik, b. 1573
Netherlands The Hague.
Netherlands Leiden.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque cage m 141005
Cote: NA44.V979.A71 1604
Statut: Disponible