KOEBEL, JACOB

Jacobs Stab künstlich und gerecht zumachen, und gebrauchen, damit an Gebäen, auch sunst allerhandt Höhe, Breyte und Lenge abzesehn unnd messen ... / Jacob Koebel.

      Franckfurt am Main, Egenolph, 1531, First edition, first Issue. Hard Cover, 4to, 12 Leaves. Ill.: Author. Very Good/No Jacket.¶ The rare first edition, first issue, with the title page a facsimile on old paper. All of the many woodcuts, first those meant to help to make the instrument and then those showing its use in city and country in fine impressions. The woodcut on the title page is also used within the book. Graesse, Vol. 4, 37, noting this 1531 edition; Benzing, Köbel, 121; Zinner 1443; not in Adams. A copy of the 2nd printing has recently been in the trade. This first issue is, if anything rarer, Later Vellum, VG, with excellent impressions of the woodcuts..