Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Furttenbach, Joseph, 1591-1667
Title:
Architectura civilis, das ist, Eigentliche Beschreibung wie ma[n] nach bester Form vnd gerechter Regul ... aufführen vnnd erbawen soll / alles auss vielfaltiger Erfahrnuss zusammengetragen, beschrieben vnd mit 40 Kupfferstucken für Augen gestellt durch Josephum Furttenbach.
Alternate Title(s):
Eigentliche Beschreibung wie ma[n] nach bester Form vnd gerechter Regul
Published / Created:
Getruckt in dess heil. Kömischen Reichs Statt Ulm : Durch Jonam Saurn, Bestellten Buchtruckern, anno MDC XXVIII [1628]
Physical Description:
[22], 78 pages, 40, [1] leaves of plates : illustrations, plans ; 32 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
NA2515 .F8 1628+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Title page in red and black, enclosed in an ornamental border.

Initials; head- and tail-pieces.

Added engraved title page (folded).

Engraved by Raphael and Jacob Custos.

Illustrations printed on double leaves.

Signatures: pi1 ):(⁴ 2):(⁶ A-I⁴ K⁴ (-K4).

Fowler architectural collection of the Johns Hopkins University, 131

National Gallery of Art (U.S.). Mark J. Millard architectural collection, III-34

Katalog der Ornamentstichsammlung der Staatlichen Kunstbibliothek, Berlin, 1953

British Architectural Library. Early printed books, 1478-1840, 1149

Grässe, J.G.T. Trésor de livres rares et précieux, II, 647

BAC: British Art Center copy has bound with it three other titles by Furttenbach: Architectura navalis, 1629 -- Architectura martialis, 1630 -- Halinitro-pyrobolia, [1627]. The volume bound in contemporary blind-stamped pigskin. The title page of Architectura civilis has autograph of "Jacobus Fischerus" and ink stamp of "[illegible] Gimbel, Baden-Baden."
Subject Terms:
Architecture -- Early works to 1800. | Architecture. | Fischer, Jacob -- Autograph. | Gimbel -- Stamp.
Form/Genre:
Woodcuts. | Engravings.
Contributors:
Saur, Johannes, 1572 or 1573–1636, printer. | Custos, Raphael, -1651, engraver. | Custos, Jacob, engraver.