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TUREK VON STURMFELD UND ROSENTHAL, Christoph Ferdinand (fl. 1650s). Dioptra Geodaetica. Prague: Typis Caesareo-Academicis, [1654].
8o (147 x 94 mm). Engraved additional frontispiece by Johann Christoph Smischeck and 19 half-page text illustrations. Contemporary silver gilt-tooled armorial vellum, probably Czech, covers with roll-tooled borders and corner ornaments surrounding central large arabesque ornaments at center in black, the front cover incorporates an armorial stamp, the back cover with central ornament gilt, edges gilt. Provenance: Petrus Marquart (ownership inscription dated 1654); 1696 monastic inscription on title-page; acquired from Marlborough Rare Books, 1990.
VERY RARE book on surveying in a fine contemporary binding. The fine engravings, in the style of Abraham Bosse and Sebastien Le Clerc, are presumably also by Smischeck, and show Baroque towns, fortresses, gardens, sea-scapes, etc., with surveryors' lines. See Thieme-Becker XXI, 165.
8o (147 x 94 mm). Engraved additional frontispiece by Johann Christoph Smischeck and 19 half-page text illustrations. Contemporary silver gilt-tooled armorial vellum, probably Czech, covers with roll-tooled borders and corner ornaments surrounding central large arabesque ornaments at center in black, the front cover incorporates an armorial stamp, the back cover with central ornament gilt, edges gilt. Provenance: Petrus Marquart (ownership inscription dated 1654); 1696 monastic inscription on title-page; acquired from Marlborough Rare Books, 1990.
VERY RARE book on surveying in a fine contemporary binding. The fine engravings, in the style of Abraham Bosse and Sebastien Le Clerc, are presumably also by Smischeck, and show Baroque towns, fortresses, gardens, sea-scapes, etc., with surveryors' lines. See Thieme-Becker XXI, 165.