SEMPER Gotfryd - The four elements of the art of building. A contribution to comparative building skill....

SEMPER Gotfryd - The four elements of the art of building. A contribution to comparative building skill. 1851. Kraków 1904. druk. Jagiellonian University. 4, pp. [4], 89. ppb. of age.
Slight rubbing of the edges of the covers, paper slightly yellowed. Own stamp. Note: "gift of Prof. W. Ekielski" (a Cracow architect, construction entrepreneur and publisher, and translator of the present work). Translation of a mid-19th century book by a former director of the Building School in Dresden: "in it one can see the deep erudition and broad mind of the author, so little known and appreciated in our country, and the principles proclaimed by him have by no means aged" (from the introduction).