GUCKEISEN, Jacob - EBELMANN, Hans Jacob. Seilen Buch darinnen derselben Grundt, Theilung, Zieradt, und gantze Volkomenheit vorgebildet wirdt.Colonia, Johann Buchsemecher, [1598].
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In folio, mm. 400x304; Binding in ancient parchment; Architectonical Title-page with the monograms GI e HE, 25 numbering tables, many with monograms.
A total of 26 copper plates engraved by the two artists.
VERY RARE ORIGINAL EDITION Interesting architectural treatise of the late German Renaissance which shows the five orders of the columns: Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian and Composite. Many boards are dedicated to technical details with examples of entablatures, string courses and scrollwork. Jacob Guckeisen, german cabinetmaker, writer and engraver, is recorded as a cabinetmaker and citizen of Strasbourg from 1596. He appears to have been a pupil of the architect Johann Schoch, who designed the magnificent Schloss Gottesau, near Karlsruhe, and the Friedrichsbau of the Heidelberg Schloss; wrote several works devoted to masons and carpenters. Hans Jakob Ebelmann, c. 1570-1609, german cabinetmaker and printmaker. Working as a journeyman cabinetmaker at the Zimmerhof in Strasbourg after 1590, he came into contact with Hans Schoch and probably Wendel Dietterlin. In 1590 the two artists began a fruitful collaboration in the publishing field.
For biographical information, see. Oxford Index. Hollstein, n. 5.
Small wormhole at the centre of the first leaves, slight sign of dampstain and browning, fine specimen.
A total of 26 copper plates engraved by the two artists.
VERY RARE ORIGINAL EDITION Interesting architectural treatise of the late German Renaissance which shows the five orders of the columns: Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian and Composite. Many boards are dedicated to technical details with examples of entablatures, string courses and scrollwork. Jacob Guckeisen, german cabinetmaker, writer and engraver, is recorded as a cabinetmaker and citizen of Strasbourg from 1596. He appears to have been a pupil of the architect Johann Schoch, who designed the magnificent Schloss Gottesau, near Karlsruhe, and the Friedrichsbau of the Heidelberg Schloss; wrote several works devoted to masons and carpenters. Hans Jakob Ebelmann, c. 1570-1609, german cabinetmaker and printmaker. Working as a journeyman cabinetmaker at the Zimmerhof in Strasbourg after 1590, he came into contact with Hans Schoch and probably Wendel Dietterlin. In 1590 the two artists began a fruitful collaboration in the publishing field.
For biographical information, see. Oxford Index. Hollstein, n. 5.
Small wormhole at the centre of the first leaves, slight sign of dampstain and browning, fine specimen.
