$5,700
Danfrie, Philippe (1532-1606) Declaration de L'Usage du Graphometre . Paris: Danfrie, 1597. First edition, first state of dedication, quarto, collated, complete; one of two books printed with Danfrie's second and fourth Civilite type; illustrated with fourteen engravings and four woodcuts; in good condition, bound in a well-executed and well-preserved later parchment binding. Danfrie was a successful graphic artist, engraver, and type designer, who cut bookbinding tools and worked for the French mint designing coins. In this work he shows off his remarkable Civilite types, patterned after formal French handwriting, his draughtsmanship, with the engraved and woodcut illustrations, and his skills as an inventor and instrument-maker, with the graphometer, a surveying instrument.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2012-11-18