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Underweysung der Messung
Etliche underricht zu befestigung der Stett Schloss und flecken
Vier Büchen von menschlicher Proportion
Illustrated by: Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528)
Author: Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528)
Printer: Jan Jansen (Netherlandish, died in 1630)
1604
Place of Publication: Arnheim, Netherlands

Medium/Technique Illustrated book with numerous woodcuts
Dimensions Overall: 31.8 x 21.3 x 4.5 cm (12 1/2 x 8 3/8 x 1 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Thomas Gaffield
Accession NumberBR480
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Arnheim: Jan Jansen, 1604

Catalogue Raisonné VD17 3:315265B; Meder, Books, XXVI (4th Germ. ed.), XXVIII (4th Germ. ed.), XXIX (2nd Germ. ed.); Hollstein, German, 26d, 27f, 28b
Description(Arnheim: Jan Jansen, 1604) Folio; 253 leaves; nineteenth-century half blind-stamped brown calf (red label), pastepaper boards.

Illustrations from Albrecht Dürer's treatises on measurement, perspective, and letter construction; fortifications; and human proportion.
ProvenanceThomas Gaffield, by whom given to the MFA, October 1895.