When first meeting the book I was surprised by its size and by how thin and fragile it actually was. It smelled of old leather, paper and the many years on its back. The ink has not faded over all those years which was quite impressive – as well as obviously the impressive drawings themselves…
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Links: Ich wählte diese Seite (die letzte des ersten Teils des Buches) wegen des grossgeschriebenen, weit auseinander stehenden Wortes “Ende” sowie einer kleinen, sehr detaillierten Darstellung einer Mühle als Abschluss der Seite. Rechts: Diese Seite (Die erste des zweiten Teiles des Buches) zeigt wie fein und dünn die Seiten des Buches sind, da die dunkle,…
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Andrea Palladio 1570
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I chose these two pages because of the beautiful drawings. The book is big, but quite thin.
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#20-712-022 # 10
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beautiful letters / interesting symbols
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I chose these two pages because I really like the Illustrations of the columns (or Column-Heads) and also enjoy the translucent paper that’s making it feel like the pages are merging into each other. It’s kind of a strange mixture of these floating, detailed columns and the block-text with the linear, informal drawing on top….
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Architectura et perspectiva des fortifications & artifices – Jacques Perret 1602:This book shows a lot of detailed pictures and has always a text on the following side. The pages are mixed one side has a scatch and the other page has a text. Through the old pages you can see the color of the print…