1698 English Art PERSPECTIVE Illustrated Architecture
1698 English Art PERSPECTIVE Illustrated Architecture Mathematics Art Engineering
Jean Du Breuil was a 17th-century Jesuit mathematician and essayist from France. He is most remembered for his contributions and theories to the practice of perspective. He studied architecture in Rome which helped him create his famous work ‘The Practice of Perspective’, which first appeared in 1642.
The illustrations in this work make it extremely desirable. Includes 120 individual full-page illustrations that depict landscapes, gardens, buildings, furniture, architecture parts, rules of drawing, walls, facades, and more. It proved to be an extremely important and useful book for artists, architects, builders, and other investing in material design.
Item number: #9796
Price: $750
DUBREUIL, Jean
Perspective practical, or, A plain and easie method of true and lively representing all things to the eye at a distance by the exact rules of art: as landskips, towns, streets, palaces, churches...: likewise rules for placing all sorts of figures with their several postures, situation and horizon: also a treatise of shadows natural by the sun, torch, candle, and lamp: very useful and necessary for all painters, engravers, architects, embroiderers, carvers, goldsmiths, tapestry-workers and all others that work by design
London: Printed for Robert Pricke and are to be sold by S. Sprint, 1698.
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[16], 120
120 engraved plates (of 150)
References: Wing D 2412;
Language: English
Binding: Leather; tight & secure
Size: ~9.5in X 7in (24cm x 18cm)
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1698 English Art PERSPECTIVE Illustrated Architecture Mathematics Art Engineering
Jean Du Breuil was a 17th-century Jesuit mathematician and essayist from France. He is most remembered for his contributions and theories to the practice of perspective. He studied architecture in Rome which helped him create his famous work ‘The Practice of Perspective’, which first appeared in 1642.
The illustrations in this work make it extremely desirable. Includes 120 individual full-page illustrations that depict landscapes, gardens, buildings, furniture, architecture parts, rules of drawing, walls, facades, and more. It proved to be an extremely important and useful book for artists, architects, builders, and other investing in material design.
Item number: #9796
Price: $750
DUBREUIL, Jean
Perspective practical, or, A plain and easie method of true and lively representing all things to the eye at a distance by the exact rules of art: as landskips, towns, streets, palaces, churches...: likewise rules for placing all sorts of figures with their several postures, situation and horizon: also a treatise of shadows natural by the sun, torch, candle, and lamp: very useful and necessary for all painters, engravers, architects, embroiderers, carvers, goldsmiths, tapestry-workers and all others that work by design
London: Printed for Robert Pricke and are to be sold by S. Sprint, 1698.
Details:
Collation:
[16], 120
120 engraved plates (of 150)
References: Wing D 2412;
Language: English
Binding: Leather; tight & secure
Size: ~9.5in X 7in (24cm x 18cm)
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Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving, and we will offer a full refund without reservation!
9796
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