89 leaves, unpaginated, signed (A-N)6, (O-P)4, (Q)3, woodcut illustrations, diagrams, alphabets, designs, including many full page and 1 double page, diagrams on verso of C5 and recto of K1 printed on pasted-in cancel slips and woodcuts on verso of P4 and recto of Q1 extended with tipped-on folding slips - as issued. (4to) period panelled calf over wooden boards, blind-stamped rules forming multiple compartments on covers, brass bosses at corners, studs at center of boards, clasp at fore-edge (1 of 2 present). In brown morocco and cloth solander case. First Edition.

Rare first edition of Durer's important "Course on the Art of Measurement" - a treatise on perspective, which revolutionized artistic sensibilities and aesthetic theory. Adams D-1057; Brunet II, 912; Printing & the Mind of Man 54.