BESSON, JACQUES. Theatrum Instrumentorum et Machinarum...cum Francisci Beroaldi Figurarum declaratione demonstrativa... necnon... Additionibus... Iulium Paschalem. Lyons: Barthelemy Vincent 1582. Folio, 405 x 269 mm. (15 7/8 x 10 5/8 in.), nineteenth-century quarter pebble-grained morocco, slightly rubbed, interleaved, pale impressions, 2 or 3 plates shakily printed, marginal repairs to title, last leaf (Q4) laid down, some marginal dampstaining, mostly marginal soiling . Fifth edition, title printed within woodcut architectural border with classical figures and grotesques, woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces, 60 etched and engraved plates, the majority reworkings of the plates from the first edition [Orléans? 1569?] by various engravers after Jacques Androuet du Cerceau plate 35 by René Boyvin with his monogram. Adams B-839; Brunet I, 830 (stating that the plates of all editions after 1579 were reworked to some degree); cf. Harvard/Mortimer French 56-58. Provenance : Eighteenth-century Spanish ownership inscription on A3r and Q3v, from Madrid library (indecipherable), Spanish translation of the text for Figure I on the first interleaved sheet in the same hand -- "Vincent", nineteenth-century signature (or signature stamp) on front flyleaf, shelfmark label on spine -- Frederick H. Rindge (1857-1905).
BESSON, JACQUES. Theatrum Instrumentorum et Machinarum...cum Francisci Beroaldi Figurarum declaratione demonstrativa... necnon... Additionibus... Iulium Paschalem. Lyons: Barthelemy Vincent 1582. Folio, 405 x 269 mm. (15 7/8 x 10 5/8 in.), nineteenth-century quarter pebble-grained morocco, slightly rubbed, interleaved, pale impressions, 2 or 3 plates shakily printed, marginal repairs to title, last leaf (Q4) laid down, some marginal dampstaining, mostly marginal soiling . Fifth edition, title printed within woodcut architectural border with classical figures and grotesques, woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces, 60 etched and engraved plates, the majority reworkings of the plates from the first edition [Orléans? 1569?] by various engravers after Jacques Androuet du Cerceau plate 35 by René Boyvin with his monogram. Adams B-839; Brunet I, 830 (stating that the plates of all editions after 1579 were reworked to some degree); cf. Harvard/Mortimer French 56-58. Provenance : Eighteenth-century Spanish ownership inscription on A3r and Q3v, from Madrid library (indecipherable), Spanish translation of the text for Figure I on the first interleaved sheet in the same hand -- "Vincent", nineteenth-century signature (or signature stamp) on front flyleaf, shelfmark label on spine -- Frederick H. Rindge (1857-1905).
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