1728. BOOK: (ART). PREISLER, JOHANN DANIEL: DIE... Lot 1

1728. BOOK: (ART). PREISLER, JOHANN DANIEL: DIE DURCH THEORIE ERFUNDENE PRACTIC ODER GRUNDLICH-VERFASSTE REGULN ODER... Nuremberg: Gedrudt hen Lorena Bieling, 1728. Folio. Engraved frontis + 8 h. + 18 engraved plates + 4 h. + 18 plates + 4 h. + 18 engravings + 2 h. + 16 plates. Four parts enc. together in one vol. in half leather and recent tips, tissue. Woodcut headpieces and culs-de-lamp. All plates by the artist Johan Daniel Preisler, founder of the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg. As a result of his work at the academy, he compiled in this work the material he had prepared for his classes and it became an art manual that was translated throughout Europe.