Copiously illustrated work on perspective
COURTONNE, Jean.
Traité de la perspective pratique, avec des remarques sur l'architecture, suivies de quelques edifices considerables mis en perspective, & de l'invention de l'auteur. Ouvrage très-utile aux amateurs de l'architecture & de la peinture.
Paris, Jacques Vincent, 1725. 3 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With 33 engraved plates (32 folding, 1 double-page), an engraved frontispiece, numerous decorated woodcut initials, and head- and tailpieces (both woodcut and built up from typographical ornaments). Contemporary gold and blind tooled mottled brown calf. [2 blank], [12], "116" [=114], [2] pp. Full description
€ 2,250
Paris, Jacques Vincent, 1725. 3 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With 33 engraved plates (32 folding, 1 double-page), an engraved frontispiece, numerous decorated woodcut initials, and head- and tailpieces (both woodcut and built up from typographical ornaments). Contemporary gold and blind tooled mottled brown calf. [2 blank], [12], "116" [=114], [2] pp. Full description
