Live auction - Lot 823
[Architecture]
Theatrum machinarum universale; of Nieuwe algemene bouw-kunde [...].
Amsterdam, Schenk, 1739
€ 500 / 600
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Lot description
Folio: 3 engr. pp.; 30 pl. (some light soiling, and thumbing on the pl., lower margin half title reinforced with tape, some staining).
Mod. half calf, sp. paper over boards, spine with raised bands (sl. shaved).
First edition of the entirely engraved Atlas of an important work for construction, also known as the "Trappenboek", by the architect Van Der Horst. Composed of 30 double-page plates engr. by Jan Schenk showing exemples of staircases, bannisters and skylights. Complete with the rare 4to textbooklet of 72 pp. in contemp. half roan.
Ref. Berlin Kat. 2253. - Not in Bierens de Haan 4839A (other ed.). - STCN.
Prov. Mod. bookpl. - W.P.C. Knuttel, 19/11/1910 (ms. entry in textbooklet).