BOOKS ON ARCHITECTURE



Author(s)

Van Schille, Hans
Title Form und weis zu bauwen...
Imprint Antwerp, G. de Jode, 1578
Localisation Antwerp, Private Collection
Subject Military architecture
Transcribed version of the text

French

     The edition of 1578 is practically the same as the previous one (1573c). The title is unchanged, but is once more set in another type and layout, again with minor variations in spelling (FORM VND VVEIS Zu bauwen...). The publisher’s imprint has also been reset and now reads “Antverpiæ, apud Gerardum de Iode. 1578”.
     This edition is extremely rare. The Belgicana nostra exhibition catalogue of 2010 describes a copy that is now in a private collection in Antwerp.

Pieter Martens (KU Leuven – Université catholique de Louvain) – 2015

Critical bibliography

P. Bragard, Dictionnaire biographique des ingénieurs des fortifications. Pays-Bas espagnols, principauté de Liège, Franche-Comté, 1504-1713, Namur, 2011, pp. 187-188.

P. Breman, One hundred books on military architecture and artillery, plus related prints, games, drawings and a selection of reference works, Oxford, P. Breman ed., 1999, cat. n° 74.

M. Delvaulx-Diercxens et al. (éd.), Belgicana nostra (Exposition organisée à l’occasion du centenaire de la Société royale des Bibliophiles et Iconophiles de Belgique, 1910-2010), Bruxelles, Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, 2010, p. 117, cat. n° 43.

F. Donnet, “Schille (Jean ou Hans van)”, Biographie Nationale, vol. XXI, Brussels, 1913, col. 716-718.

P. Lombaerde, “New techniques for representing the object: Hans Vredeman de Vries and Hans van Schille”, Heiner Borggrefe, Vera Lüpkes (eds), Hans Vredeman de Vries und die Folgen, Marburg, 2005, pp. 101-108.

H.E. Wauwermans, “Etude bibliographique sur la fortification de Jean van Schille (d’Anvers) ingénieur et géographe 1573”, Bulletin van de Maatschappii der Antwerpsche Bibliophielen, 1882, dl. 1, pp. 41-56.