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SCHUBLER, Johann Jacob. Recreations perspectives et essais des nouveaus cabinets des berceaus, cages, ou volieres artificieles, et attiques des jardinages … Perspectivische Belustigung und neue Versuche von Kleinen Lust-Hausern, wie auch allerhand Kunstlichen Vogel-Bauern samt unterschiedlichen Aufsatzen und Garten-Werck. Nuremberg: Johann Christoph Weigels, 1732.
2° (327 x 201mm). Letterpess title and 18 engraved plates by Schubler. (Minor spots and stains.) Contemporary red half roan (rubbed and stained). Provenance: Mathesis Scientiarum Genitrix, Leiden (label on front cover).
FIRST EDITION of an uncommon work by the Nuremberg mathematician and architectural theorist, J.J. Schubler, presenting stunning forms of garden architecture whose different elements – archway, fountain, sundial, clock, glockenspiel, bird cage, and topiary – are often fantastically combined. Wimmer/Lauterbach S-254; cf. Thieme/Becker XXX, 309.
2° (327 x 201mm). Letterpess title and 18 engraved plates by Schubler. (Minor spots and stains.) Contemporary red half roan (rubbed and stained). Provenance: Mathesis Scientiarum Genitrix, Leiden (label on front cover).
FIRST EDITION of an uncommon work by the Nuremberg mathematician and architectural theorist, J.J. Schubler, presenting stunning forms of garden architecture whose different elements – archway, fountain, sundial, clock, glockenspiel, bird cage, and topiary – are often fantastically combined. Wimmer/Lauterbach S-254; cf. Thieme/Becker XXX, 309.
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