Nuremberg, Dietrich Gerlass, 1571.
Perspectiva hierinnen auffs kürtzte beschrieben mit exempeln er'et.
First edition, “become very rare” (Thieme-Becker XXIII, 45), of this illustrated perspective compendium, in the Nuremberg tradition of Kunstbuchleinen, which included such artists and goldsmiths as Stoer, Hirschvogel and Jamnitzer. The work follows and forms the technical counterpart to Lencker’s playful Perspectiva Literaria (1567), describing a drawing instrument of the author’s invention (pictured..... More
