Samuelis Marolois, mathematicorum sui seculi facile principis, Mathematicum opus absolutissimum : continens geometriae, fortificationis, architecturae, & perspectivae theoreticae ac practicae regulas, demonstrationes, & figuras perfectissimas

5 v. in 1 : 31 cm. (fol.) Each vol. has separate t.p.: [1]. Geometria theoretica ac practica -- [2]. Artis muniendi, sive fortificationis pars prima[-secunda, with additional separate t.p.] -- [3]. Ioannis Vredemanni Frisii ... Architectura, continens quinque ornamenta architecturae ... -- [4]. Perspectiva theoretica ac practica ... studio atque opera Ioannis Vredemanni Frissii -- [5]. Opticae, sive perspectivae pars prima Main title within engraved border signed by W. Akersloot. All plates double-page. Some in v. [3]-[5] signed by Hendrik Hondius. Those for Vredemann de Vries's Architectura in part after Paul de Vries as well as Vredeman. Four plates in the 24-plate continuation of de Vries's Perspectiva signed BD (interpretation uncertain; see Milke). Plates 53-59 (v. [5]) are views. They bear the additional numbers CLXXXIIII-CXC and are signed by Hondius (nos. 54-59 after Petrus Stephanus). All added t.p.'s have Jansson's woodcut device, signed PHS. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces, initials v. [1]. [6], 51 p., 42, 5 plates -- v. [2]. Pt. 1: 39 p. Pt. 2: 40 p., [1] (table), 40 [i.e. 42] plates -- v. [3]. [20] p., [40] plates -- v. [4]. [2], 15 p., 49 [i.e. 50], 24 plates -- v. [5]. [2], 50 p., 51, 53-80 (overlay, plate 5)