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Coecke van Aelst, Pieter (1502-1550)

Inventie
Die inventie der colommen..., Antwerp, Pieter Coecke, 1539.

Translations of Serlio
           Books I-II
Den eersten (-tweeden) boeck van architecturen..., Antwerp, Mayken Verhulst [Coecke's widow], 1553.
Den eersten (-tweeden) boeck van architecturen..., Antwerp, Mayken Verhulst [Coecke's widow], 1558.

           Book III
Die alder vermaertste antique edificien..., Antwerp, Pieter Coecke, 1546.
           French translation
Des antiquités, le troisième livre..., Antwerp, Pieter Coecke, 1550.

           Book IV
Generalen reglen der architecturen..., Antwerp, Pieter Coecke, 1539.
Reglen van metselrijen op de vijve manieren van edificien..., Antwerp, Pieter Coecke, 1549.
           French translations
Reigles generales de l’architecture..., Antwerp, Pieter Coecke, 1542.
Reigles generales de l’architecture..., Antwerp, Pieter Coecke, 1545.
Reigles generales d’architecture..., Reveu & corrige, avec additions du mesme aucteur..., Antwerp, Pieter Coecke, 1550.
           German translations
Die gemaynen reglen von der architectur..., Antwerp, Pieter Coecke, 1542 [1543].
Die gemaynen reglen von der architektur..., Antwerp, Mayken Verhulst [Coecke's widow], 1558.

          Book V
Den vijfsten boeck van architecturen..., Antwerp, Mayken Verhulst [Coecke's widow], 1553.
Den vijfsten boeck van architecturen..., Antwerp, Mayken Verhulst [Coecke's widow], 1558.

Editions from Coecke
           Books I-V
Den eersten (-vijfsten) boeck van architecturen..., Amsterdam, Cornelis Claesz, 1606.
Het eerste (-vijfde) boeck van de architecturen Sebastiani Serlii..., Amsterdam, Hendrick Laurenz, 1616 [reed. 1626, 1636?].
           German translation [after ed. 1606]
Von der Architectur fünff Bücher..., Basel, for Ludwig König, 1609.
           German adaptation
Architectura pratica nova, Frankfurt am Main, Johann Kaspar Bencardt, 1672-1674.
           English translation
The first (-fifth) Booke of Architecture... Translated out of Italian into Dutch, and of Dutch into English, London, Simon Stafford, 1611.

           Book I-II, IV-V
Architectura pratica nova, Nördlingen, Johann Silbert Heil, 1673.
Compendium artis delineatoriæ sive architecturæ praticæ novæ, Nördlingen, Johann Friedrich Schultes, 1681.

           Book I
A new naturalized Work of a learned Stranger..., London, Thomas Jenner, 1657.

           Book II
A Book of Perspective & Geometry... Translated out of Italian into Dutch, and of Dutch into English..., London, Thomas Jenner, 1657.

           Book I-II
An excellent introduction to architecture..., London, Robert Pricke, 1670.
An excellent introduction to architecture..., London, Robert Pricke, 1679.

Joint authorship
Le triumphe d’Anvers, faict en la susception du Prince Philips... Anno 1549..., Antwerp, Gillis Coopens van Diest, 1550.