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DUERER, Albrecht. Underweysung der messung mit dem zirckel und richtscheyt in Linien ebnen unnd gantzen corporen ... und zu nutz allen kunstlieb habenden mit zu gehörigen figuren in truck gebracht . Nuremberg: [Hieronymus Formschneider] 1525. 2°. Collation: A-N 6 O-Q 4 (without final blank Q4). Errata on Q3b. 2 large woodcuts, woodcut diagrams on nearly every page, 5 designs for various alphabets. (Minor finger soiling throughout, mainly in lower outer corners; lacking the overslips to diagrams 59 and 61 on P4b and Q1.) Meder xxvi; Bohatta Versuch einer Bibliographie der kunsttheoretischen Werke Albrecht Dürers 1c. FIRST EDITION, one of three issues without precedence with text on Q3a line 10 'Got dem Herren sey lob und eer ewiglich' [bound with:] Herinn sind begriffen vier bücher von menschlicher Proportion durch Albrechten Dürer ... erfunden und beschriben zu nutz allen denen so zu diser kunst lieb tragen . Nuremberg: Hieronymus Formschneider, 31 October, 1528. 2°. Collation: A-M 6 N 4 O 5 P-S 6 T 4 V 6 X 5 Y 5 Z 6 , of which O2, S4, S6 and Y2 are double folding leaves. Errata on Z6. Woodcut diagrams and figures on nearly every page (Minor finger soiling throughout, mainly in lower outer corners; leaf Y3 with minor staining.) Meder xxix; Bohatta op cit. 17. FIRST EDITION [bound with:] Etliche underricht zu befestigung der Stett, Schlosz, und flecken . Nuremberg: [Hieronymus Formschneyder] October, 1527. 2°. Collation: A 5 B 4 C 6 D 5 E 4 F 2 , of which A5, B1, B3, C1, C3, D3, E1, E3, F1 and F2 are double folding leaves. Large woodcut arms of Ferdinand I on title, woodcut diagrams throughout (minute split in fold of D3, F1 and F2.) Meder xxviii; Bohatta op.cit. 12b.FIRST EDITION, second issue with errata corrected and without the large woodcut 'Belagerung einer Festung' 3 works in one volume, 2° (303 x 202mm). Eighteenth-century half calf (corners worn). Provenance : Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolaevich (1832-1909) with his bookplate