Nuremberg

Alberti Dureri clarissimi pictoris et geometræ. De sym[m]etria partium
in rectis formis hu[m]anorum corporum First edition of the Latin translation created by Joachim Camerarius, the work appeared in German in 1528 under the title Vier Bücher von menschlicher Proportion. Our edition contains the first two books, the following two will be published in 1534 under the title De varietate figurarum et flexuris partium ac gestibus imaginum. We will have...

First edition.
Publisher's half aubergine cloth with corners, smooth spine slightly faded, marbled paper boards, marbled edges.
Handsome copy.

First edition.
Publisher's half burgundy cloth with corners, smooth spine slightly faded, marbled paper boards, marbled edges.
Handsome copy.

The first edition was published in Paris in 1621. This Nuremberg edition, illustrated with 36 unsigned figures and a frontispiece is rare. Each figure is accompanied by a caption.
Contemporary marbled full calf binding. Decorated smooth spine. Red morocco title label. Joints, headcaps and corners restored.
The writer Jean Barclay (1582-1621) was born in Pont-à-Mousson and died in Rome (he was invited by the pope and pensioned), he was educated by the Jesuits, then left for England with his father. Argenis is his principal and most famous work (1621), it is a long political novel, a utopia in the classical sense in which the great figures of the time parade. The narration is similar...

Regni mexicani seu Novae Hispaniae, Floridae, Novae Angliae, Carolinae, Virginiae et Pensylvaniae


Nuremberg [ca 1720] | 62 x 53.2 cm | one map
First edition with full margins, copper engraved, colored in a contemporary hand.
Some tiny foxing very slightly affecting the margins of the map.
Very beautiful title cartouche featuring a Native American surrounded by the natural resources of the Americas: beaver skins, tobacco rolls, fish... A large illustration, near the Atlantic Ocean, shows the natives working in a gold mine and helping the colonists to amass treasure. Finally, a last engraving, located off the coast of the Mexican...

Nova Anglia Septentrionali Americae implantata Anglorumque coloniis florentissima Geographica exhibita


Nuremberg | [ca 1716] | 61.4 x 53 cm | one map
Beautiful copy of one of the rare maps of the American North-East in the early eighteenth century, showing the region as it was considered before the British government commissioned more in-depth cartographic studies on the subject.
his map is the work of Johann Baptist Homann (1664-1724), one of the most well-known cartographers, founder of one of the most important German publishing houses.
Conceived while the region was still being discovered, it shows a certain number of inaccuracies: Cape Cod is...