Live auction - Lot 861

Livre de perspective.

Subject: [Art - Perspective]

COUSIN, Jean

€ 1.000 / 1.200

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Lot description

Paris, J. Le Royer, 28 June 1560

Folio: [67 (sur 72)] ff. (missing i.a. A2r with the full-page woodcut, marg. (damp)staining, title underlaid, most margins strengthened, occ. foxing, some sm. staining, cancel on the ill. of Ciii verso).

Cont. half calf, marbled paper covers, gil orn. flat spine (partly rubbed).

First edition of this fundamental work on perspective by Cousin (1503?-1560?), leading theorist on artistic perspective in 16th-c. France. Copy illustrated with 55 woodcuts (some half-page, 16 full-page and 4 double ills). Large printer's mark on title. Ref. Mortimer, French, 157. - Adams C-2852. - Pettegree (FB) 14711. - STC French 125. - Kat. Berlin 4690. - Cicognara 832 ("Tutte le opere di questo Maestro deggiono ritenersi come le migliori produzioni della Francia"). - Not in BP16, Fowler. Prov. James Antony Perrot, London (ms. entries). - "J.B. Deluc" (?) (supra libros, 2 last letters erased).