A luxurious leather case protects this valuable edition.

This set, which is the first out of four, includes Manuscript A, Manuscript suppl. A, Manuscript E, and Manuscript M out of the twelve sketchbooks treasured at the Institut de France.

Leonardo's twelve Paris sketchbooks and the two supplementary volumes are being made available as a perfect, faithful facsimile edition, limited to 990 copies.

Manuscript A, Compl. Manuscript A (Codex Ashburnham I), Manuscript E and Manuscript M

Faithful reproduction of the binding.

Leonardo frequently switches spontaneously between completely different subjects. This loose combination of various notes and drawings on different topics, typical for all his notebooks, can be attributed to the way Leonardo wrote them.

Throughout his life, the great Leonardo da Vinci always carried a notebook with him to immediately capture ideas.

The first four volumes containing notes from various fields, such as drawing techniques, the properties of water, weight and gravity, as well as geometry and botany.

The 12 Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci – A Glimpse into the Creative Mind of a Genius Ahead of His Time.