Daniel Hartmann - Burgerliche Wohnungs Baw-Kunst - 1688

Daniel Hartmann:

Civilian Housing Construction Art, Or: Thorough Report on How, on a prescribed site, a well-appointed dwelling-house, beside its allowances, the shaping of the cross-vaulted cellar, stairs, spirals, whose crooked and broad steps, sloped windows, beveling of the head and handles, can be built in the most delicate and lasting manner: For its further intention, however, everything is very faithfully presented in eighteen very correct and useful copper plates. To all lovers of civic buildings, also stone masons, quarry workers, bricklayers, joiners and coopers, especially to the young aspiring masters before they set about making their master piece, very useful.

With engraved title and 18 plates (of which 11 are folded and 6 double-page) as well as an inserted engraved vignette. Basel, Johann Philipp Richter, 1688. 4°. (31.6 x 19.7 cm). Frontispiece, copper title, [3] leaves, 40 pages, plates. Later handbook in parts. With a handwritten backer’s shield (strongly stained and rubbed, cover boards damaged and partly detached).

VD17 23:270482Y - Bircher C 101. – Second edition, first published 1673.

Rare treatise on construction by the Basel-based “Zimmerwerckmeisters” (master of carpentry/house building). The allegorical vignette with the text “Und das könten wir alle” shows the globe on a measuring table with a growing hand. The plates provide floor plans, stair and vault constructions, as well as facade designs.

At the margins somewhat dusty and stained, initially somewhat creased in the lower corner, small stamp on the frontispiece and title. One plate with a small tear. Text browned, edges slightly foxed.

Weight: 465 g