Apr 11, 2013 - Sale 2309

Sale 2309 - Lot 75

Price Realized: $ 3,840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
BEHAM, HANS SEBALD. Warhafftige Beschreibung aller fürneme[n] Künsten. Woodcut illustrations and diagrams throughout. [28] leaves. 4to, 195x155 mm, 20th-century boards; margins trimmed entering 2 woodcuts on verso of C3, scattered foxing and minor marginal dampstains. Bookplate of J. H. Anderhub, his gilt Bibliotheca Hippologica supra-libros on covers. Frankfurt am Main: Vincenz Steinmeyer, 1605

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Eighth edition of Beham's 1546 manual of anatomical proportion for artists, dealing with the use of the compass and ruler, drawing human faces and other subjects with and without a grid, and the accurate depiction of horses. Pauli, pages 432-36.