Architectura chivilis. Vertoonende verscheyde treffelijcke cappen soo van toorens, kerck, als mede veelderhande voorname huysen, etc en eenige wenteltrappe. Dienstigh voor alle lief-hebbers en leerlingen van de bouw-konst.

4to: 8 pp.; 40 pl. (engr. title pasted on, some pl. dampstained mostly in the margins, in some cases touching the engr., some tiny holes in the margins, some def. on the upper corner of p. 3).

Sewn, dust wrappers.

First edition later issue (text with page numbers) of this model book dealing with roof structures and tower trusses, spiral staircases and drawbridges. J. Danckerts (1635-1701), engraver, mapmaker and publisher followed German and Italian examples. Ill. with an engr. title and 40 engr. plates (complete corresponding to the digitised copy of the National Library of the Netherlands). Our copy contains plates from other works too: 6 leaves with engravings from Simon Bosboom's "Cort onderwys van de vyf colomen", and 6 engr. pl. showing architecture designs for garden pavilions engraved by Justus Danckerts after I. le Pautre.
Ref. STCN. - Fowler, p. 78.
Joined: Collection of 60 engraved plates from "Uitvoerig onderwys in de perspectiva of doorzichtkunde" by Caspar Jacobz Philips. Oblong 8vo, 60 numb. plates (some spotting on the margins of pl. xxiv-xxvi). Sewn, dust wr. (def.). Philips (1732-1789) was an 18th-century engraver and architectural historian who lived and worked in the Dutch Republic. The illustrations exemplify mathematical principles of perspective. Ref. Bierens de Haan 3759. - Berlin Kat. 4740. - STCN. (2 vol.)