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JAMNITZER, Wenzel.
Sintagma, in quo varie eximiàque corporum
diagrammata ex praescripto Opticae exhibentur.
Amsterdam, Jan Jansson,
1618.
In-4 (270 x 188 mm) d’un titre gravé, 2
ff.n.ch. (introduction),
46 (sur 49) planches gravées ; veau tacheté, dos à nerfs, tranches mouchetées
(reliure de l’époque).
3 000 / 5 000
€
Vagnetti EIIb24.
Seconde édition rarissime.
“
Jamnitzer created an extraordinary collection of both regular and semi-regular
bodies in his Perspective of Regular Solids (1568) which, as he explained in
his title, was based on Plato’s Timaeus and Euclid’s Elements. Accordingly,
he associated the tetrahedron with fire, octahedron with air, hexahedron with
earth, icosahedron with water and dodecahedron with heaven respectively.
Using a “particular new adroit method never before in use” he provided six
regular, six truncated, six stellated and six double stellated variants for each
of the regular solids to create a total of 120 versions which, as he pointed out
in his long title, was but an “introduction how, out of these five bodies, many
other bodies of various kinds and shapes may be made and found without
end
”(bibliodyssey.blogspot en ligne).
Les fascinantes planches sont gravées par Jost Amman d’après Wenzel
Jamnitzer. De cette édition le catalogue électronique de Karlsruhe ne trace
que 3 exemplaires institutionnels, tous en Allemagne : Erfurt, Göttingen,
et Halle (sans indication de planches).
Titre anciennement monté.
Provenance : Bibliothèque Nordkirchen (ex-libris).
The excessively rare second edition of this important work on perspective
which had an immense influence on M.C. Escher and his engravings.
This second edition is missing in all institutional specialized collections
(Karlsruhe Catalogue locates 3 copies in Germany : Erfurt, Göttingen, and
Halle).
[On joint :]
JAMNITZER, Wenzel.
[Perspectivae sintagma, in quo variae eximiáque
corporum diagrammata ex præscripto opticæ exhibentur : in primus
necessarium & utile opus omnibus artis Perspectivæ cultoribus].
[Amsterdam, Jean Janssoon, 1618 ?].
In-folio (349 x 260 mm) une planche
« Schenographie » et 49 planches gravées, sans la page de titre. Collation :
A-G
6
H
4
I
3
; demi-veau à coins moderne, dos lisse avec titre en long. Titre
manuscrit suggérant la date de 1618. L’impression et le filigrane du papier
de cet exemplaire sont différents de celui décrit précédemment.