Laurids de Thurah: Le Vitruve Danois/ Den Danske Vitruvius. Indeholder Grundtegninger, Opstalter, og Giennemsnitter af de merkværdigste Bygninger i Kongeriget Dannemark. 2 vols. 1746–49. Folio. With engraved frontispiece and 281 engraved plates. + Manuscript copy of the third volume, which was not published until 1967, copied in fine handwriting from the orig. manuscript at the Royal Library. Text and plate-volume. All volumes bound in elegant full brown calf with spines richly gilt, upper and lower headband with wear (Anker Kyster). Enclosed the 1967-edition of volume III. Orig. boards, in slipcase. (5)
Laurids de Thurah (1706–59) is the principal representative of baroque architecture in Denmark. This is his monumental masterwork on Danish architecture, complete with 281 engraved plates by the Germans Michael Keyl and C.L. Wüst. Only two volumes were published during his lifetime. Here the 3rd volume by Thurah is included in manuscript, probably calligraphed by the Danish art-historian Julius Lange who has signed the introduction. Bibl. Dan. II, 602; Graesse VII,153; Brunet V, 851.
Books and manuscripts, 3 June 2014
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