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DRER, Albrecht (1471-1528). Institutiones geometricae. Translated by Joachim Camerarius. Paris: Christian Wechel, 9 August 1532. 2o (286 x 191 mm). 148 numbered woodcut diagrams in the text, tipped-in extensions to diagrams on P6 and Q1. (Repairs to extension hinges and small repair to title-page, title-page lightly browned, dampstaining throughout, several woodcuts slightly cropped.) Speckled calf antique, gilt spine. First Latin edition of the Unterweisung der Messung (Nuremberg 1525). The woodcuts of the French edition are close copies of Drer's original cuts. Adams D-1047 (lacking 2 leaves); BM/STC French, p. 143.