With Illustrated, Multilingual, Architectual Glossary

GOLDMANN, Nikolaus.  NICOLAI GOLDMANNS VOLLSTANDIGE ANWEISUNG ZU DER CIVIL-BAU-KUNST.  Two volumes, bound as one.         

Leipzig: Friedrich Landischens, 1708. Folio. Contemporary, blind-stamped vellum. Frontispiece, (xxii), 179, (1) pages, 74 plates; frontispiece, (x), 165, (1) pages, 19 plates. Second Leipzig edition.

An amalgamation of seventeenth-century architectural knowledge including treatises on fortifications and the proportions of columns, this work was published posthumously.  Civil-Bau-Kunst stresses the importance of mathematics in architecture, the use of a module in building, and the theory of proportions.  It is also important for its illustrated, multi-lingual glossary of architectural terms, as well as its series of plans and elevations of model buildings.  Many of the plates are folding.  Early leaves thumbed; waterstain on frontispiece and title page; minor, sporadic foxing; covers lightly sunned; tips worn; wormholes along top edges, not affecting text or illustrations.  Scarce.

$6,500.00