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Rare first edition of a famous and extraordinary illustrated book on perspective

CAULS, Salomon de.
La perspective avec la raison, des ombres et miroirs.

With engraved allegorical title-page, and 80 etchings and engravings (1 double-page engraving, 63 full-page engravings of perspectival drawings and designs, 16 etched perspectival diagrams and illustrations in text).

With engraved allegorical title-page, and 80 etchings and engravings (1 double-page engraving, 63 full-page engravings of perspectival drawings and designs, 16 etched perspectival diagrams and illustrations in text).

With engraved allegorical title-page, and 80 etchings and engravings (1 double-page engraving, 63 full-page engravings of perspectival drawings and designs, 16 etched perspectival diagrams and illustrations in text).

With engraved allegorical title-page, and 80 etchings and engravings (1 double-page engraving, 63 full-page engravings of perspectival drawings and designs, 16 etched perspectival diagrams and illustrations in text).

With engraved allegorical title-page, and 80 etchings and engravings (1 double-page engraving, 63 full-page engravings of perspectival drawings and designs, 16 etched perspectival diagrams and illustrations in text).



London, Jan Norbon, 1612. Folio. Contemporary dark brown calf with gilt border along the edges. With engraved allegorical title-page, and 80 etchings and engravings (1 double-page engraving, 63 full-page engravings of perspectival drawings and designs, 16 etched perspectival diagrams and illustrations in text). 4, 54, 12 ll.

Rare first edition of a famous and original treatise on perspective by the prominent mathematician and theorist of perspective Salomon de Cauls.
Cauls was renowned as an inventor of mechanical contrivances, both utilitarian and entertaining. His present work clearly explains and depicts all aspects of perspectival problems, including intricate projections and optical illusions, the perspectival drawing of shadows and the miroring of objects, etc. Including illustrations of an ingenious perspectival instrument, a fortified city, a guitar in perspective, a corinthian capital, a garden design, a 17th century interior, and a complex and transparant polygon;the 12th full-page engraving is pasted over a wrongly placed nr. 17 which is also printed in its proper place; two engravings are pasted in.

Re-backed; traces of use. A fine copy of this famous perspective work.
Berlin Kat. 4706; Millard, French 268; Vagnetti EIIIb7: 'Opera molto chiara' (splendid work); cf. Kemp, The Science of Art, p. 183; not in Fowler.

Related Subjects: Architecture  Art General  Perspective 

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