Bosboom, Symon

Cort onderwys vande vyf colommen door Symon Bosboom, stadts steenhouwer tot Amsterdam uyt den scherpsinnigen Vincent Schamozzij getrocken en in minuten gestelt seer gemacklick voor de jonge leerlingen en dienstich voor alle jonge liefhebbers der bouw-const.

t' Amsterdam by Gerard Valk Print Const en Caart Verkoper, op den Dam in de Wackeren Hont, 1694. "Cort onderwys van de Vyf Colommen" or Short instruction on the five columns is a book on architecture with engravings after Vincenzo Scamozzi with doric, ionic, corinthian, tuscan, composit. This book gave him an honorary place in the book of artists of Cornelis the Bie. It became a popular handbook for architects that was reprinted several times and served to spread the ideas of Scamozzi throughout the Netherlands. Content: titlepage, "lofdicht" (p. 5); "kroonvairs" (p.6); "Nieujaers-gifte" (p.3), "tot den discreten leeser" (p. 4); "schaalverdeling"; "Tafel van de vyf colommen" (p.10); 51 numbered pages with drawings; 6 unnumbered pages (one with a church interior) and one of a round church, a "koepelkerk". This copy belonged to Jacob Bezemer. Rather used copy, Title page loose, Vellum (browned).

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Book number: 952111

Catalogue: architecture old and rare books