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        "Body size--Early works to 1800",
        "Pirckheimer, Willibald, 1470-1530",
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        "Volume 1 (books 1-2) Translation of: Hierinn sind begriffen vier Bücher von menschlicher Proportion; Volume 1 (books 1-2) has colophon: Norimbergae excubatur opus aestate anni A Christo seruatore genito MDXXII ..; Volume 2 (books 3-4) has title: Clariss. pictoris et geometrae Alberti Dureri, de varietate figurarum et flexuris partium ac gestib. imaginum, libri duo, qui priorib. de symmetria quondam editis, nunc primum in Latinum conuersi accesserunt; Volume 2 (books 3-4) has colophon: Finitum opus Anno a salutifero partu. 1534. 9. Cal. Decemb. Impensis viduae Durerianae, per Hieronymum Formschneyder Norinbergae; Signatures: Volume 1 (books 1-2) A-E⁶ F⁴ G-N⁶ O⁴; Volume 2 (books 3-4) a⁵ b-d⁶ e-f⁵ g-h⁶ i⁵ k⁶ (Blank K6 wanting). Gatherings a, e, f, i, include a folded leaf; Translated by Joachim Camerarius, the elder; Campbell-Dodgson, I, page 265; Bound in calf, gilt borders and decorations, and gilt edges",
        "Professor Held's annotations found on the following pages: http://cdm16245.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16245coll5/id/58756 ; http://cdm16245.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16245coll5/id/58757 ; http://cdm16245.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16245coll5/id/58758 ;",
        "Professor Held's notes inserted inside front cover: http://cdm16245.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16245coll5/id/58747 ;",
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