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DÜRER, Albrecht. Etliche underricht, zu befestigung der Stett, Schlosz, und Flecken . Nuremberg: [Hieronymus Andreas Formschneider], October 1527.
DÜRER, Albrecht. Etliche underricht, zu befestigung der Stett, Schlosz, und Flecken . Nuremberg: [Hieronymus Andreas Formschneider], October 1527. 2 o (284 x 201 mm). Collation : A-B 6 C 8 D-E 6 F 4 (text and folded plates); G1 (errata-leaf). 37 leaves, including the folding extensions form part of each quire and errata. Title with large woodcut arms of Ferdinand I, 20 woodcut illustrations or diagrams of fortifications; woodcut fraktur initials (some plates with minor darking or fraying at edges). Contemporary limp vellum (probably a remboîtage). Provenance : small circular library stamp on rear pastedown; acquired from John Fleming 1962. FIRST EDITION, with the rare errata leaf, and uncorrected text. This treatise on the fortification of city, castle and marketplace was a practical work, inspired by the menace of a Turkish invasion. "As well as summarizing the science of fortification it contains some of Dürer's chief architectural work... Many of his ideas were put to use..." ( DSB ). Two editions were printed in the same month, the first with uncorrected text and an errata leaf (as here), and the other without the errata and the errors in the text corrected (see lot 26 [bound with]). A minority of copies of this first edition contain an extra folding sheet with a monogrammed woodcut dated 1527 showing a fortress under siege (Bartsch 137, not present here). Adams D-1057 (as Part II of the Underweysung ); Fairfax Murray German 151 ("second edition"); Bohatta 11a; Cockle 766; Meder XXVIII 1; Stillwell Science 835.