208 - Architecture - Bosse, Abraham. A skilled and experienced master builder who clearly instructs on how to produce precise drawings, according to which stones can be properly cut, enabling one to build structures that are both sturdy and elegant. With an engraved frontispiece and 114 copper plates. Nuremberg, Monath, 1767. 2 leaves, 178 pp. 20 x 17 cm. Modern cover.

Architecture - Bosse, Abraham. A skilled and experienced master builder who clearly instructs on how to produce precise drawings, according to which stones can be properly cut, enabling one to build structures that are both sturdy and elegant. With an engraved frontispiece and 114 copper plates. Nuremberg, Monath, 1767. 2 leaves, 178 pp. 20 x 17 cm. Modern cover. Lotz 2541 - Engelmann, Mechan. 47 - Schütte No. 70. - Abraham Bosse (1602–1676), best known as the author of the work *Die Kunst in Kupfer zu stechen* (*The Art of Engraving in Copper*), popularized the ideas of the French mathematician Girard Desargues (1591–1661) on perspective and other methods applicable to architectural design through his copperplate engravings. He published these under his own name. Thanks to the translation, likely produced by the publisher Monath, these methods of stereometry—developed in France—became known in Germany. — Slightly browned and with foxing. *