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1018 [Surveying]
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VAN DYCKE, Martinus
- Preuve der landt-meters, behelsende In’t cort de Thiende-
Rekeninghe, de principaelste ende noodigste Grond-Regelen der Geometrie (...) het maecken en
ghebruyck der Faseel-Maete (...) het maecken der Caerten Figuratif sonder Passer (...) ghetrocken
uyt de Schriften van sekeren Eerw. Pater Joannes Baptista Doemen Carthuyser, door desselfs
Discipel nu gesworen Landt-Meter, Meester Martinus van Dycke, Coster tot Mourbeke, Land van
Aelst [- Declaration des mesures des terres, & bois de Pays & Comte de Haynau]. Bruges, P. vande
Capelle, 1714, 2 parts in 1 vol., 8vo, cont. calf (rubbed at lower cover, corners bumped), gilt orn.
spine on 5 raised bands (def., used), [10 (of 12?)]-160 (= 164), 41-[1-2 bl.] pp. (sm. tear at right
margin of title, minor dampstaining). Good copy.
€ 150/200
Very rare treatise
on surveying, written by a practician from Moerbeke in the land of Aalst and
based on J.B. Doemen’s work. Ill. with
36 (of 37) engr. lettered folding pls
depicting diagrams,
some with underneath a nice view (landscape, sea, etc.); Pl. Z1 replaced by a ms one; folding
table titled “Kort begrijp der geheele geometrie ofte landt-meet-const”. “In his “Preuve der landt-
meters” M. Van Dijcke (1714) established a scheme of the field of “geometrics or land surveying”.
He distinguished a theoretical and a practical branch. The dimensions of the studied object define
the subdivision of the latter in lines (longimetria, altimetria, profundimetria), surfaces (geodosia,
ichnographia) and volumes or stereometria; this is the art/science of finding the volume of a number
of solids (cones, pillars with circular base, pyramids, and truncated pyramids) as well as their
application to the measuring of structures and buildings” (Van de Vijver).
Ref.
Aleph UGent (lacking the 37 pls). Cp. Cat. De Landt-meeters (Royal Library, Brussels, 1976),
nr 74-75 (ed. 1715 and 1717). Van de Vijver, Dirk - “Mesurer la Solidité”: the Art of Measuring
Buildings in Belgium, 1451-1960, p. 3174. Not in Opac KBR, Anet, BL, BnF, NUC.
INCUNABULA
1019 [Leipzig]
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Legenda S. Annae
. Leipzig, M. Lotter, 1497, [6 (of 24)] ff. (lacking B-D6) [bound
with]
JOHANNES DE PALZ O.S.A.
- Septem fores seu Festa Beatae Virginis Mariae. [Leipzig],
M. Landsberg, [c. 1491-1493], [10 (of 18)] ff. (lacking A1-6, B3-4), 2 works in 1 vol., 4to, 19th-c.
boards (tanned), gilt leather strip on spine.
€ 700/900
Reunion of parts of 2 rare Leipzig devotional incunables about St Anne and the Holy Virgin.
Woodcut mark of Landsberg at the end. Nicely rubricated in red and blue.
Ref. 1
. ISTC ia00744000.
GW 2002. Goff A-744.
2
. ISTC ij00389000. Goff J-389.
~ Annotated copy ~
1020 [Mainz]
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BERNARDUS CLARAEVALLENSIS
- Sermones de tempore et de sanctis et de
diversis. Mainz, P. Schoeffer, 14 April 1475, folio, 19th-c. calf (rubbed), blind titled spine on 4
raised bands (joints splitting), [234 (of 235)] ff. (lacking final blank; outer col. of last 2 Index ff.
missing; some marg. repairs, single wormholes through 1st ff., tiny wormtracks in some blank
corners, tiny hole in ff. 228-230 touching a few letters, f. 232 underlaid). Good copy with wide
margins.
Cfr. ill.
€ 4000/6000
Editio princeps
of the sermons attributed to the Cistercian reformer Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-
1153), printed by one of the very first printers (active since 1457) in Mainz.
Incipits and colophon
printed in red
. Text in 2 cols of 45-47 ll. Capital spaces (with a few pen initials). Copy with on f. 7rb
a sentence crossed out in red, and on f. 11vb an additional last line after a blank line (as described
by Polain). Cont. ownership entry of Mainz Franciscans at top of f. 1, and a later one dated 1674
as well.
Numerous
(on almost every p.)
cont. marg. notes
(2 different hands)
in red or black ink
.
Blindst. initials G.G. under a crown at tail.
Ref.
ISTC ib00436000. GW 3940. Goff B-436. Polain
601. IDL 757. BMC I:32. BN Paris B-262. BSB München B-320.