La perspective pratique, necéssaire a tous peintres, graveurs, sculpteurs, architectes, orfèvres, brodeurs, tapissiers, et autres qui se meslent de desseigner [...].

3 vol. 4to: [26]-172-[5], [13]-123-[6], [20]-165-[7] ff. (sl. foxed).

Contemp. calf, richly gilt spines on 5 raised bands (sl. rubbed). Very good copy.

Complete second edition (1st ed. 1642) of Jean DuBreuil's treatise on perspective. He became a Jesuit in 1642 and spent several years in Rome. His work on perspective is probably one of the most influential works on perspective aimed at a lay audience. It united the methods developed by Dürer, Cousin, Vredeman de Vries, Desargues, Marolois, Vignola, Serlio and Barbaro, among others. The treatise is divided in 5 parts dealing with (1) basic rules and definitions of geometry, (2) the practice of drawing and designing plans, (3) designing elevational drawings with perspectival mis-en-scenes, the (4) measuring of proportions of figures represented on a two-dimensional plain field, and (5) the practice of creating realistic shadows. Ill. with 462 full-page etched and engr. plates with representations of perspecival excercises and 3 fold. engr. (num. 161, 162 and 165). Each of the engr. has the same page number as the opposite text page. Plate 91 (vol III) has four over-lapping slips, when opened revealing the interior of a building. This edition with appendices and complete in three volumes is not recorded in any of the great collections of architecural treatises (Fowler, Cicognara, Berlin, Millard, etc.)
Ref. (to other ed.) Fowler 108. - Cicognara 823. - DBS II:144-45. - Brunet P-523. - Barbier III-837. - Millard 63.
Prov. E.L. De Champs (bookmark).