[Architecture] / [Carpentry].
Nuremberg, Homann, [1745-48].
Architectura civilis.
Very rare first and only edition of this extraordinary 18th-century folio atlas – entirely engraved and consisting of 26 folding and 2-full-page plates – devoted to the practice of carpentry in the construction of civic, commercial, domestic and princely architecture using the latest “German, French and Italian methods” (f. 1)..... More