Schillinger (Georg Peter) [Architectura civilis], no title, engraved frontispiece featuring the author supervising four carpenters at work in front of a large house by Joh.Eberhard Alber (c.570 x 330mm.) and 26 large engraved plates (c.670 x 580mm. with margins), frontispiece lightly browned, plates with occasional light foxing and a few towards end with small stain but generally clean and bright, central vertical crease from previous folding, first plate a little torn and frayed at edges not affecting image (repaired), modern half sheep, red morocco label, uncut, rubbed at edges, [Berlin Kat. 2184], large oblong folio, Nuremberg, Homänn, 1745-48.

⁂ Rare work with impressive and detailed plates of carpentry for timber roofing by the master carpenter and Hof-Zimmer-Meister to Karl Ludwig, Graf von Hohenlohe-Neuenstein-Oehringen, including an orangery for Schloss Weikersheim at Württemberg, country houses, barns, a brewery, summerhouse etc.

Only a few copies are known, some with a title, others without.