‎TIELEMAN van der HORST - Jan SCHENK ( engraver ) :‎
‎Theatrum Machinarum Universale of Nieuwe Algemeene Bouwkunde, waarin op eene naauwkeurige, klaare en wiskundige wijze wordt voorgesteld en geleerd het maaken van veelerleije soorten van Trappen, met derzelver Gronden en Opstallen....‎

‎ Amsterdam, bij J.S. Van Esveldt-Holtrop, s.d. (ca. 1810), in-folio, 47,5 x 31,5 cm, (4)nn pp (title printed in red and black and with copper engraved vignette) + 30 double page engraved plates, bound in contemporary half roan, some slight use, some plates slightly dustsoiled but still a fine copy. Atlas of the second edition (first in 1739) of Horst's work on staircases and related carpentry constructions complete with the 30 double page engravings showing construction details, groundfloors and projections of the constructions. A small booklet of 40 pp explaining some of the drawings was published together with this atlas (booklet not present here). See Berlin Ornamentstichsammlung nr. 2253.‎

Reference : 33753

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