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Containing the first 'edition' ever of Leonardo da Vinci's Treatise on Painting, now known as the 'Libro di pittura' View picture(s) 1 ACCOLTI, Pietro. Lo inganno de gl'occhi, prospettiva pratica. Trattato in acconcio della pittura. Florence, Pietro Cecconcelli, 1625. Folio. Contemporary limp vellum, rests of ties. With large engraved vignette with the coat-of-arms of Cardinal Carlo de Medici on title, woodcut printer's device on the recto of the last leaf, and 92 woodcut figures, diagrams and perspectival illustrations, including a staircase and a lute in text, 7 of which are full-page; woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. [12], 152, [4] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Art General  Perspective  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare first edition of a famous and extraordinary illustrated book on perspective View picture(s) 2 CAULS, Salomon de. La perspective avec la raison, des ombres et miroirs. 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. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Art General  Perspective  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The largest, best argumented and most philosophical summary of Newtonian science View picture(s) 3 GRAVESANDE, Willem Jacob 's. Elemens de physique, demontrez mathematiquement et confirmez par les experiences; ou introduction à la philosophie Newtonienne: ouvrage traduit du Latin par Elie de Joncourt. Leyden, Jean Arn. Langerak, Jean et Herman Verbeek, 1746. 2 vols. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, spines ribbed and richly gilt with red title-labels, blue marbles edges. With numerous figures, diagrams and illustrations of experiments in physics on 127 folding engraved plates. (2), LXXIII, (1 blank), 534; (14), 460, (18) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Perspective  Philosophy  Physics  Science  Scientific Instruments  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare work on the basics of perspective View picture(s) 4 HOUTEN, Hendrik van. Verhandelinge van de grontregelen der doorzigtkunde, of tekenkonst (perspectief,) leerende de middelen en wyze, hoe alles in de doorzigtkunde, kan werden afgeteekend. Zeer dienstig voor bouwmeesters, schilders, teekenaars, enz. Op een korte manier afgebeeld en voorgedraagen. Amsterdam, Jan ten Hoorn, 1705. 4to. Contemporary marbled boards. With large allegorical engraving on title, several woodcut figures in text, 20 basic mathematical figures  on a folding engraved plate, and numerous models of perspective drawings on 52 numbered folding engraved plates. (4), 72 [=76] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Art  Drawings  Perspective  Theatre  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Fine lithographed drawing instruction book View picture(s) 5 JACQUOT, Victor & Paul RAVOUX. Interprétations pour Dessiner simplement. Paris, Louis Geisler, (ca. 1890). Oblong 8vo. Orig. cloth with drawing examples on frontcover. With lithographed illustrations on 5 explanatory lvs.  and numerous drawing examples on a double suite of tinted lithographed plates, one suite of 64 plates colour-printed in brown, and the other suite of 61 plates without the colour-printing in brown, intended to be filled in by the pupils. (68) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Art  Colour Printing  Drawing & Painting  Lithographs  Perspective  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare treatise on perspective, with 6 plates View picture(s) 6 MUHLERT, Karl Friedrich. Studienblätter für die Perspective in der Zeichnung, in landschaftlichen Darstellungen von Werken der Baukunst und ihrem Gegenbilde auf der spiegelnden, ruhigen Wasserfläche. Leipzig, Baumgärtner, 1833. 4to. Contemporary black half roan with title-label on front cover. With 6 lithographed plates (of which 3 folding). IV, 27, [3] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Perspective  Schoolbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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German edition of John Peckham Perspectiva Communis, one of the earliest works on perspective, with 44 new geometric and perspectival woodcuts View picture(s) 7 PECKHAM, John and Georg HARTMANN. Perspectiva Communis. Ideo sic dicta, quod contineat elementa tès optigès, omnibus philosophiae studiosis necessaria. In hac enim doctrina inchoatae disputationes  philosophorum, de natura, & proiectione radiorum visus, luminum, colorum & formarum absolvuntur. In quibus & de speculis tractatur. Summa cura & diligentia emendata, & ab infinitis quibus scatebat mendis repurgata, necnon in quibus desiciebat demonstrationibus restituta. Nuremberg, Johan Petreius, 1542. Small 4to. Boards. With 44 geometric and perspectival woodcuts in text. [55] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Dürer  Mathematics  Perspective  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Revolutionary discoveries in garden architecture View picture(s) 8 PETZOLD, Eduard. Zur Farbenlehre der Landschaft. Beiträge zur Landschafts-Gärtnerei. Jena, Friedrich Frommann, 1853. Sm.4to. Contemp. half cloth, orig. front wrapper mounted. With 7 variant diagrams of the colour spectrum on 4 full-page plates, all richly coloured by hand. IX, (3), 68 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Agriculture & Husbandry  Art General  Engravings  Gardens  Perspective  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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From the famous Huet library View picture(s) 9 PROCLUS and Francesco BAROZZI (editor). Procli Diadochi in primum Euclidis elementorum librum commentariorum ad universam mathematicam disciplinam principium eruditionis tradentium libri IIII. summa opera, cura, ac diligentia cunctis mendis expurgati: scholiis, & figuris, quae in graeco codice omnes desideranbantur aucti: primum iam Romanae linguae venustate donati, & nunc recens editi. Padua, Gratiosus Perchacinus, 1560. Folio. Contemporary overlapping limp vellum, sides with gilt fillet borders, corner ornaments and central ornament, gilt edges. In dropback box with gillt title. With large woodcut emblem on title, woodcut printer's device on last blank, full-page woodcut portrait of Barozzi on verso of title, numerous geometrical illustrations in text, all pages set within red ruled woodcut borders. [16], 272, [24] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Humanism  Mathematics  Perspective  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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How to calculate the local time View picture(s) 10 PUTEUS, Augustinus A. Gnomonices biformis, geometriae, scilicet, & arithmeticae synopsis, in quatuor partes divisa. Quarum qualibet est completus gnomonicae tractatus, ad usum totius orbis terrarum; ut plenius conversa pagina, singularum partium indicat epilogismus. Opusculum matheseos candidatis perutile; quippe in quo iucundissima praxi, ea maxime ex parte degustare valent, quae summis ingenij laboribus, ac studio, ex Elementis Euclidis, ex Sphaericis Theodisij, & ex Conicis Apollonij exantlarunt. Venice, Antonius Bosius, 1679. 4 parts in 1 vol. 4to. Contemporary vellum on wooden boards, spine ribbed, sides richly blind-stamped in panel design with the Jesuit device in centre on both sides, with 2 brass clasps, red painted edges. With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece, woodcut printer's device on 4 titles, 73 engraved perspectival illustrations and figures in text, large folding plate and 183 full-page plates with tables and diagrams, and folding engraved plate and 2 full-page plates of the globe's declinations. (24), 136; (8), 88; (8), 12; 56 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art General  Astronomy & Cosmography  Engravings  Mathematics  Perspective  Science  Sundials  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare first edition of a mathematical work in the wake of the theories of Galilei on the system of the world View picture(s) 11 ROSSETTI, Donato. Antignome fisico-matematiche con il nuovo orbe e sistema terrestre. Livorno, Giovanni Vinc. Bonsigli, 1667. 4to. Contemporary vellum. only the loops of the fore-edge closure present. With woodcut coat-of-arms of the dedicatee on title, title printed in red and black, and 66 geometrical and perspectival woodcuts in text. XII, 179, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Astronomy & Cosmography  Mathematics  Perspective  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Extensive text book on measurements, proportions and perspective View picture(s) 12 SAINTE-MARIE MAGDELEINE, Pierre de. Traitté d'horlogiographie, contenant plusieurs manieres de construire sur toutes surfaces, toutes sortes de lignes horaires: & autres cercles de la sphere. Avec quelques instrumens pour la mesme pratique, & pour connoistre les heures durant la nuit: & l'heure du flus & reflus de la mer. Plus la methode de couper en pierre ou en bois les corps reguliers & autres polyëdres, par le cube & par le cylindre. Reveu, corrigé & augmenté en cette seconde edition de plusieurs propositions & figures. Paris, François l'Anglois, dit Chartres, 1645. 12mo. 19th century calf, spine gilt with red title-label, red mottled edges. With engraved frontispiece showing all the elements and instruments of horlogiography, and numerous mathematical and geometrical tables, illustrations and figures on 76 numbered engraved plates, 2 folding, and with 11 repeats, incl. a cancel. (20), 391, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art General  Horology  Perspective  Science  Sundials  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Designing fortifications View picture(s) 13 SCALA, Giovanni. Delle fortificationi. Nuovamente ristampate con agiunta d'diverse piante e fortezze. Roma, Gioseppe de Rossi, 1627. Folio. Contemporary limp vellum. With engraved title within richly designed military emblematic borders with coat of arms at the top and a plan of fortification at the bottom, 100 elaborately designed and engraved plans and perspectival drawings of detailed parts of fortifications on 50 numbered plates, 10 engraved plans and perspectival designs of full fortifications on 5 plates, 2 engraved illustrations of a canon on 1 plate, and 5 double-page engraved plates with perspectival designs and full plans of fortifications, including a beautiful bird's eye view of the heavily fortified harbour of La Rochelle. (70) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Engineering  Engravings  Fortification  Militaria  Perspective  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Early mentioning of Australia and mirroring early 17th-century Spanish daily life View picture(s) 14 SUAREZ DE FIGUEROA, Christobal (Thomaso GARZONI). Plaza universal de todas ciencias, y artes, parte traduzida de Toscano, y parte compuesta por el doctor Christoval Suearez de Figueroa. A Hieronymo Perarnau cavallero Catalan ... Perpignan, Luis Roure, 1630 (colophon: 1629). 4to. Contemporary mottled calf. With title printed in woodcut border with large woodcut coat of arms; interesting woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces. [8], 379, [1 blank] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Encyclopædic Works  Perspective  Printing  Professions  Science  Spanish  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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All aspects of linear perspective for use of aspiring artists, posthumously published View picture(s) 15 THIBAULT, Jean Thomas Application de la perspective linéaire aux arts du dessin, ouvrage posthume, mis au jour par Chapuis. Paris, Paul Renouard for Mesdames Thibault, Jules Renouard, a. o., 1827. Folio. Fine contemporary half purple calf, richly gilt spine with panelled ornaments and giltlettered title in compartments between raised bands, marbled boards,  edges and endpapers (THOUVENIN). With full-page engraved portrait of the author sitting aside his drawing table by F. Girard, engraved frontispiece of Minerva standing on top of a column on a square with ancient temples, seen through a high clasical architectural gate, engraved by Dormier after a design by the author, dated 1822, and numerous perspectival plans and  beautiful views of woods, landscapes, buildings, squares, streets in Asian cities, columns, galeries, elevations, etc., on 53 full-page engraved plates by Dormier, Ambroise Tardieu, Lemaitre, Bance & Thierry, all after designs and drawings by the author. XV, (1 blank), 168 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Art  Art General  Drawing & Painting  Perspective  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the earliest instructions on the use of glasses for all sorts of viewing at all distances View picture(s) 16 THOMIN, Marc Mitouflet. Traité d'Optique Mechanique, Dans lequel on donne les règles & les proportions qu'il faut observer pour faire toutes sortes de Lunettes d'approche, Microscopes simples & composés, & autres Ouvrages qui dépendent de l'Art. Avec une instruction sur l'usage des Lunettes ou Conserves pour toutes sortes de vûes. Paris, Jean Baptiste Coignard, Antoine Boudet, 1749. Small 8vo. Modern half marbled calf, spine ribbed with red and green title-labels, red edges. With engraved vignette on title showing all sorts of perspectival and optical instruments, and perspectival and optical diagrams and illustrations of perspectival and optical instruments, incl. a camera obscura, on 4 folding engraved plates. XII, 372, (4) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Medicine  Ophtalmology  Optics  Perspective  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of the first monograph and catalogue raisonné of Sebastien Le Clerc (1637-1714) View picture(s) 17 VALLEMONT, [Pierre le Lorrain de]. Eloge de Mr. (Sebastien) Le Clerc, chevalier Romain, dessinateur, et graveur ordinair du cabinet du roi: avec le catalogue de ses ouvrages; Et des réfkexions sur quelques-uns des principaux. Paris, Nicolas Caillou & Jean Musier, 1715. Small 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt, marbled edges. With engraved portrait of Sebastien Le Clerc by E. Jeaurat, dated 1715, mounted for frontispiece, and with fine engraved allegorical headpiece with coat of arms of the dedicatee, marquis de Méreville by Vallet. (8), 223, (5) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art General  Biography  Perspective  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The basics of perspective View picture(s) 18 VERGNAUD, Armand Denis. Manuel de Perspective, du Dessinateur et du Peintre, contenant les élémens de géométrie indispensables au tracé de la perspective, la perspective linéaire et aérienne, et l'étude du dessin et de la peinture spécialement appliquée au paysage. Paris, Roret, 1825. 12mo. Modern cloth. With 8 folding engraved plates. (4), 229, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art General  Perspective  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Perspective of the rainbow View picture(s) 19 VOLCKAMMER, Christoph Gottlieb. Thaymantiados Thaumasia, Sive Iridis Admiranda. Sub Rationis accuratius examen revocata, Eruditorumque ventilationi publicae in Alma Altdorffina Universitate exposita, Sub Praesisio Joh. Chr. Strumii. Neuremberg, Wolfgang Maur. Endter, 1699. Small 4to. Modern vellum, red mottled edges. With 10 perspectival illustrations of the rainbow after the views of the classical scientists on large folding engraved plate, and 34 perspectival illustrations of the rainbow after the latest knowledge on 3 large folding engraved plates by Cornelius Nicolaus Schurtz after designs by the author. 185, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Games & Pastimes  Meteorology  Perspective  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of the explanation and extensive demonstration of a proportional pair of compasses View picture(s) 20 WARIUS, Pieter. Nieuwe Verklaring over de Proportionaal Passer, Waar in aangewesen word, hoe dezelve is te teekenen, en hoe Tafeltjes daar toe dienende konnen worden berekend, vervolgens der zelver veelvuldig en nuttig gebruyk, zoo in de Tel- als Meetkonst; namentlyk: in de Telkonst, om uyt een gegeven getal de Quadraat en Cubic-wortel te trekken, de Regel van Driën uyt te werken, enz. In de Meetkonst, om Driehoeken, zoo Regt- als Scheef-hoekige t'ontbinden; Zonnewyzers te teekenen, Fortressen t'ontwerpen; veele en verscheyde Voorstellen, aangaande Linien, Hoeken, geschikte en ongeschikte Vlakken, Ronden, geschikte Lichaamen, Metaalen Kogelen, enz. op te lossen. Amsterdam, Joannes Loots, 1708. 4to. Contemp. calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt with red title-label, red mottled edges. With large folding engraved plate illustrating the newly invented proportional pair of compasses, including its scales, and numerous geometrical figures and diagrams illustrationg the application of the proportional pair of compasses on 12 folding engraved plates. (4), 72 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Mathematics  Perspective  Science  Scientific Instruments  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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