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An early mention of Australia and a window into early 17th-century Spanish daily life

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.
Perpignan, Luis Roure, 1630 (colophon: 1629). 4to. With title printed in woodcut border with large woodcut coat of arms; interesting woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces. Contemporary mottled calf. [8], 379, [1 blank] ll. Full description
€ 6,500
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Rare, richly illustrated 17th-century guide to chiromancy: the practice of fortune-telling through the study of the palm (palm reading)

[TAISNIER, Jean (?)]. La science curieuse, ou traité de la chyromance, récueilly des plus graves autheurs que ont traité de cette matiere, & plus exactement recherché qu'il n'a esté cy-devant par aucun autre.
Paris, Francois Clousier, 1665. 4to (21.5 x 16.5 cm). Illustrated with 90 engraved plates (9 showing 1 full-page hand each, 1 table and 80 showing 16 smaller hands each, with the relevant lines for reading palms). With 1 woodcut decorated initial, and several woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary mottled calf, sewn on 5 supports, gold-tooled board edges, gold-tooled spine with the title lettered in gold. [1], [1 blank], [6], 212 pp. Full description
€ 2,950
Astrology & Occult
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First edition of the first monograph about Sebastien Le Clerc

VALLEMONT, Pierre le Lorrain de. Eloge de Mr. Le Clerc, chevalier romain, dessinateur, et graveur ordinair du cabinet du roi: avec le catalogue de ses ouvrages; Et des réflexions sur quelques-uns des principaux.
Paris, Nicolas Caillou and Jean Musier, 1715. Small 8vo (ca. 16 x 10 cm). With an engraved frontispiece, an engraved headpiece, a woodcut headpiece, and two decorated woodcut initials.Contemporary gold-tooled mottled brown calf, with the title lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges, marbled edges, marbled endpapers. [8], 223, [4], [5 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,950
Art & Art History Bibliography & Biography Optics & Perspective
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The basics of perspective

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. With 108 figures and illustrations on 8 folding engraved plates. Modern gold-tooled beige paper over boards, with a red morocco author and title label on the spine, lettered in gold, brown sprinkled edges. [4], 229, [1] pp. Full description
€ 650
Art & Art History Optics & Perspective
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Perspective and Scheele's green: teaching the basics of painting

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 (colophon: imprimerie de Crapelet), 1826. 12mo. With 108 figures and illustrations on 8 folding engraved plates. Contemporary gold tooled mottled half calf. [1], [1 blank], 11, [1 blank], 260, 12 pp. Full description
€ 500
Art & Art History Optics & Perspective
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Perspective of the rainbow

VOLCKAMER VON KIRCHENSITTENBACH, Christoph Gottlieb and Johann Christoph STURM (praeses). [Greek] Thaumantiados thaumasia. Sive iridis admiranda. Sub rationis accuratius examen revocata, eruditorumque ventilationi publicae in Alma Altdorffina Universitate exposita, Sub Praesisio Joh. Chr. Strumii.
Nuremberg, Wolfgang Moritz Endter, 1699. Small 4to (ca. 21 x 16.5 cm). With 4 folding engraved plates by Cornelius Nicolaus Schurtz after designs by the author. Modern limp sheepskin parchment. [2], 185, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 6,500
Optics & Perspective
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