Perspectiua Corporum Regularium (1568)

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Pasted on t.p. verso of Getty copy is the unhatched armorial bookplate of: FRID. A SCHIRNHAUS, perhaps Freiherr Friedrich von Tschirnhaus, d. ca. 1615

Etcher identified as Jost Amman in Vorrede, p. [7]. Main title and six section titles are printed letterpress with decorative etched borders signed with Amman's initials I A

Signatures: a⁴ A-G⁶ H⁴ I²(+chi 1). Each leaf of gatherings A-I signed in the plate at lower right corner with a signature letter followed by a Roman numeral

VD16

Assessed: Condition report in research file;

Binding: modern parchment over boards, retaining original endpapers. Restrained tooling in blind and brown, Six raised bands on spine. Page edges gilt