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Ursus Books
Peter Kraus
50 East 78 Street · New York, NY 10075, USA
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E-Mail: pkraus@ursusbooks.com · Internet: www.ursusbooks.com
Illustrated books of all periods
Coecke van Aelst, Pieter. De seer wonderlijke,
schoone, triumphelijke Incompst, van den
hooghmogenden Prince Philips, Prince van Spaignen,
Caroli des vijfden, Keysers sone. By Cornelius
Graphaeus (Scribonius). [56] ff. Illustrated with 31
woodcut illustrations by Pieter Coecke van Aelst,
all in contemporary hand-colouring; and 4 full-page
and one in-text black and white plans. 4to., 276 × 190
mm, bound in Dutch 18th-century speckled calf
with gilt armorial device of Aaron Joseph de Pinto
on both covers. [Antwerp: Pieter Coecke van Aelst
for Gillis van Diest, 1550.] € 30 000,–
Rare First Edition of this hand-coloured fête book
celebrating the entrance of Philip II into Antwerp on
September 10, 1549. The thirty-one woodcuts were designed
and published by Pieter Coecke van Aelst, court
painter to Charles V. In all, 21 arcs de triomphe were
financed and built by the city, with five erected by foreign
merchants from Germany, Spain, England, Florence,
and Geneva, plus elaborate tableaux vivants staged
in open-air theaters decorated in tapestries, stucco,
and trompe l’oeil. Hans Vredeman de Vries, Antonio
Palermo, Jan Mandijn, Frans Floris, and Lambert van
Noort were among the artists who contributed to the
event. In fine condition, with final leaf (O4) laid down.
Amman, Jost. Enchiridion artis pingendi, fingendi
& sculpendi. [112] leaves. Collation: (:)4, A-Z4,
a-d4. Title-page within a woodcut border, 3 ff. (dedication
to Hieronymus August von Holtzhusen,
with woodcut arms), plus 107 woodcuts by Jost
Amman, and with the final letterpress leaf (colophon).
Small 4to., 168 × 125 mm, bound in 19th century
calf, gilt front cover, orange and green leather
spine labels. Frankfurt: Petrus Fabricius (Schmidt)
for Siegmund Feyrabend, 1578. € 22 500,–
First Edition of one of the earliest model books intended
to aid painters, designers, engravers, and printers
– of the greatest rarity: OCLC records only the
seriously defective copy at Cornell and the copy at
Northwestern, which lacks 5 plates.
The woodcuts elegantly depict figures from antique
mythology, costume designs, tournaments with swords
and spears, horses, armorial escutcheons, Turkish soldiers,
dancing couples, allegorical characters, contemporary
scenes from literature and/or theater, and superb
„models“ intended to aide painters, designers, engravers
and copyists of the day. Our copy is complete and
aside from inconsequential marginal thumb-staining
and a small repaired marginal tear leaf c3, it remains in
a fine state of preservation.
Tuccaro, Arcangelo. Trois dialogues de l’exercise de
sauter et voltiger en l’air. [4], 197 ff. (misnumbered
throughout). Illustrated with woodcut title vignette,
large folding woodcut plate (270 × 385 mm), 87
large woodcuts throughout text (many full-page,
some repeating). 4to., 215 × 165 mm, bound nineteenth-century
vellum over boards, brown leather
spine label stamped in gilt. Paris: Chez Claude de
Monstr’oeil, 1599. € 20000,–
Rare First Edition. Tuccaro’s illustrated work on acrobatics
is widely recognized as one of the first tier illustrated
books of the Renaissance. The Trois Dialogues
offers substantial details on theatrical dance during the
late sixteenth century, and it represents the first printed
work on floor exercises.
Arcangelo Tuccaro (1535–1602) was an Italian gymnastics
instructor, tightrope walker and „saltarin du
Roi“. In 1570 it is recorded that he accompanied Isabel,
daughter of Austrian Emperor Maximilian II, from
Vienna to the French court of Charles IX. According
to the „Epistle“ to King Henri IV appearing at the beginning
of the Trois Dialogues, he must have instructed
King Charles in the art of tumbling.
Perret, Jacques. Architectura et Perspectiva etlicher
Festungen, … mit schönen Kupferstücken gezieret
und an Tag gegeben und verlegt durch Johan-Theodor
de Bry. 688 pp. Text and 27 Plates, of which
21 are double page. Folio. Contemporary calf. Oppenheim:
Hieronymus Galler, 1613. – With: Solis,
Virgil. Buchlin von alten Gebaueden. Engraved title
page and 12 Plates. Cologne: Jan Büchsenmacher,
ca. 1610. –With: Brunn, Lucas. Praxis Perspectivae
Das ist: Von Verzeichnungen ein außführlicher
Bericht darinnen das jenige was die Scenographi
erfordert begrieffen und in welchen allerley dinge
uff allerley Stände in ein Perspectivischen auffzug
zu bringen gelehret auch das was wundersam hierbey
sich begeben kan erkläret wird. 12, 60 pp.
and 26 Plates. Nürmberg: Halbmeyer; Leipzig:
Kober, 1615. – With: Beschreibung vnd kurtze
Radierte entwerffung der Fürstlichen Hochzeit,
So Der Durchleuchtig, vnd Hochgeborn Fürst …
Wolffgang Wilhelm, Pfaltzgraff bey Rhein, … Mit
Der … Fürstin Fraw Magdalena, Pfaltzgräfin bey
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