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SCHÜBLER, Johann Jakob (1689-1741). Perspectiva pes picturae. Das ist: Kurtze und leichte Verfassung der practicabelsten Regul, zur perspectivischen Zeichnungs-Kunst. Nuremberg: Johann Christoph Weigel, 1719-20.
Two parts in one volume, 2o (408 x 272 mm). Two engraved frontispieces, dedication and 47 full-page plates. Contemporary German sprinkled calf (minor wear to joints). Provenance: Friderich Ketteler zum Harrkotten, from Schloss Ketteler in Harkotten (near Sassenberg in Germany (ownership inscription dated 1729 on title verso); acquired from Walter Schatzki, 1974.
VERY RARE FIRST EDITION of this history of perspective and perspective literature. Schübler was born in Nuremberg in 1689, and had an extremely varied career as an architect, draughtsman, mathematician, painter, and sculptor. He was the son of a braid and tassel maker, and his prodigious talents were first recognised when at the age of seven he created from memory an architecturally exact drawing of the recently destroyed Egidienkirche, a Romanesque cathedral in Nuremberg. He studied with the noted architectural painter J.A. Graff, and at age nine, became part of the atelier of Jakob von Sandrart, the founder and director of the Nuremberg Academy of Fine Arts. While being exposed to the full extent of the Italian, French, and German Baroque, Schübler was also under the tutelage of another director of the Academy, Georg Christoph Eimmart. It was Eimmart-- himself a prominent representative of the artist-mathematicians of the time--that inspired Schübler's enthusiasm for the 'great mathematical connections of the Cosmos.' The remarkable engravings are by Michael Rentz, Heironimus Böllmann, Joseph von Montalegre and can be compared in quality of excellence to Sirigatti, Pozzo or Bibiena. Berlin Kat. 4728 (1749 edition, lacking a plate).
Two parts in one volume, 2o (408 x 272 mm). Two engraved frontispieces, dedication and 47 full-page plates. Contemporary German sprinkled calf (minor wear to joints). Provenance: Friderich Ketteler zum Harrkotten, from Schloss Ketteler in Harkotten (near Sassenberg in Germany (ownership inscription dated 1729 on title verso); acquired from Walter Schatzki, 1974.
VERY RARE FIRST EDITION of this history of perspective and perspective literature. Schübler was born in Nuremberg in 1689, and had an extremely varied career as an architect, draughtsman, mathematician, painter, and sculptor. He was the son of a braid and tassel maker, and his prodigious talents were first recognised when at the age of seven he created from memory an architecturally exact drawing of the recently destroyed Egidienkirche, a Romanesque cathedral in Nuremberg. He studied with the noted architectural painter J.A. Graff, and at age nine, became part of the atelier of Jakob von Sandrart, the founder and director of the Nuremberg Academy of Fine Arts. While being exposed to the full extent of the Italian, French, and German Baroque, Schübler was also under the tutelage of another director of the Academy, Georg Christoph Eimmart. It was Eimmart-- himself a prominent representative of the artist-mathematicians of the time--that inspired Schübler's enthusiasm for the 'great mathematical connections of the Cosmos.' The remarkable engravings are by Michael Rentz, Heironimus Böllmann, Joseph von Montalegre and can be compared in quality of excellence to Sirigatti, Pozzo or Bibiena. Berlin Kat. 4728 (1749 edition, lacking a plate).