Item #178882 Drawing Instruments, 1580-1980. Maya Hambly.
Drawing Instruments, 1580-1980
Drawing Instruments, 1580-1980
Drawing Instruments, 1580-1980
Drawing Instruments, 1580-1980
Drawing Instruments, 1580-1980
Drawing Instruments, 1580-1980

Drawing Instruments, 1580-1980

London: Sotheby's Publications, 1988. Hardcover. Gray cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine, tan dust jacket with black and red lettering, color illustrations. Decorative end pages, bw frontispiece, 206 pp, profusely illustrated throughout in bw and color. VG/VG (light wear to dust jacket. Pages are very crisp and clean). Item #178882
ISBN: 9780856673412

"Early drawing instruments appear increasingly in salerooms, and architects, engineers, graphic artist and cartographers have long been fascinated by the antique tools of their trade. This comprehensive historical guide, describing all the various instruments used and developd for geometrical drawing over the past 400 years, is an essential reference work for anyone connectd with the preperation or appreciation of architectural or technical drawings, or for any collector of early examples. In a climate of change in the way early geometrical drawings are being looked at, a knowledge of the whole range of drawing instruments has become relevant... The numerous illustrations represent the best examples of both well and lesser known European makers, on whose work the author has done much original research. A gazetteer of museums with substantial collections is included, and a select bibliography lists historic treatises, manuals and encyclopedias frm the sixteenth century and the foremost reference works of modern times."-dust jacket.

OCLC: 18603873

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