Serlio, Den eersten (-vijfsten) boeck van Architecturen, Antwerp, 1553, contemporary limp vellum

SERLIO, SEBASTIANO. Den eersten (-tweeden) boeck van Architecturen Sebastiani Serlij, tracterende van Geometrye. Overgesedt Wten Jtaliaensche in nederlandts duer Peeter Coeke van Aelst doen ter tijt Schildere der K. Maiesteyt. Antwerp: Mayken Verhulst (widow of Pieter Coecke van Aelst), 1553 [bound with:]

Die aldervermaertste Antique edificien van templen, theatren, amphiteatren, paleisen, thermen, obeliscen, bruggen, archentriumphal &c. beschreven ende gefigureert met haren gronden en maten oock de plaetsen daerse staen en wiese dede maken. Antwerp: Gillis Coppens van Diest for Pieter Coecke van Aelst, April 1546

Reglen van Metselrijen, op de vijve manieren van Edificien, te wetene, Thuscana, Dorica, Ionica, Corinthia ende Composita: ende daer by gesedt die exemplen vanden Antijquen, die in dmeeste deel met de leeringe van Vitruvio overcommen. Met noch toeghesedtte Figuren die int eerste niet en waren, ende sommige texten vanden Aueteur gebetert hier oock bygesedt. Antwerp: Pieter Coecke van Aelst, 1549

Den vijfsten boeck van Architecturen Sebastiani Serli, inden welcken van diversche formen der Templen getracteert wordt nae de maniere vanden Antijken ende oock dienende voer de Kerstenen. Overgesedt Wten Jtaliaensche in nederlandts duer Peeter Coeke van Aelst doen ter tijt Schildere der K. Maiesteyt. Antwerp: Mayken Verhulst (widow of Pieter Coecke van Aelst), 1553

FIRST EDITION IN FLEMISH OF BOOKS 1, 2, 3 AND 5, second Flemish edition of Book 4, 4 parts in one volume, folio (357 x 238 mm). Gothic type. Collation: A-C⁴ D² A-G⁴; A-R⁴ S⁶; A-S⁴; A-D⁴: 204 leaves. Title-pages to parts 1, 2, and 5 within woodcut strapwork border, title to part 3 in a table above ruins of an arcade, title to part 4 within architectural border, numerous in-text woodcut illustrations, many full-page. (Title-page to part one with several closed tears and chipping at margins, some staining and finger-soiling).

Binding: Contemporary limp vellum (365 x 262 mm), spine lettered in ink, slight foredge flaps. (Binding slightly soiled and creased, upper joint split, closed tears to spine and upper foredge flap.)

Provenance: Seb. Fred. Moitemont, early inscription to A1v — Thomas Steward Treill (1849-1925, Canadian physician), bookplate and signed pencil note on the significance of this edition to front free endpaper, and neat pencil captions to some diagrams in his hand — [Irving Zucker Art Books, sold in 1973 to] — Arthur and Charlotte Vershbow, sale, Christie's New York, 10 April 2013, lot 312. Acquisition: Purchased at the preceding sale. References: BAL RIBA 2969 (book 3); Fowler 305 (books 1-2), 323 (book 5); STCV 12916197 (books 1-2); USTC 400799 (book 4); Vène, Bibliographia Serliana 22, 23, 11, 10, 24