Decker Paulus (2 results)

Hardcover. Blue marbled boards with tan spine/corners and black lettering on spine. Matching blue end papers. NOTE: Back board missing. 4 pp. text followed by 57 bw plates. Text in German. Introduction by R. Dohme. Beautiful plates of architectural decor: "The designs [are] from the hand of young German architect Paulus Decker the Elder (1677-1713). His designs encouraged the imagination of those who followed him, rather than restricting them to his original ideas. 'Paul Decker the Elder excelled above all as an imaginative empirical architectural theoretician. Particularly with his idealized projects in the work Fürstliche Baumeister he influenced the aristocratic architectural patrons of Central Europe and their architects in the building of their palace residences. In the history of German architectural theory his building and decorative ideas, disseminated in engravings without textual commentary, constitute a turning point toward purely artistic representational style.' " (Hans Reuther, in Placzek). Plates and text VG+, clean and tight. Exterior Poor: Back cover missing, back end paper torn and tape-repaired, and spine repaired with tape. Entire volume still secure.

Das See Treffen bey Malaga. Augustae Vindelicorum (Augsburgo), Ieremias Wolff, (hacia 1720 ), magnífico grabado original en plancha de cobre por Iohan August Corvinus, de 46,5 x 41 cm. más grandes márgenes blancos. (La escena central representa la batalla naval de Vélez-Málaga entre las armadas franco-española y la combinada anglo-holandesa durante la Guerra de Sucesión española en 1704. La composición aparece flanqueada por dos columnas monumentales repletas de trofeos militares, armas, banderas y figuras mitológicas o alegóricas. En la parte alta, dentro de un gran ornamento de rocalla, se ubica el texto explicativo en alemán antiguo que narra los pormenores y el despliegue de las armadas. En la parte inferior destaca un pequeño mapa cartográfico del mar Mediterráneo y la costa sur de España, acompañado por figuras decorativas secundarias y un querubín). Libros.