Edme-Sébastien JEAURAT
Traite de Perspective a l'usage des Artistes, ou l'on demontre toutes les pratiques de cette Science, & ou l'on enseigne, selon la Methode de M. le Clerc, a mettre toutes sortes d'objets en perspectives, leur reverberation dans l'eau, & leurs ombres, tant au soleil qu'au flambeau.
Chez Charles Antoine Jombert|à Paris 1750|20.50 x 26 cm|deux parties reliées en un volume
First edition illustrated with 110 plates outside the text respectively illustrating the perspective lessons and 56 allegorical half-page tailpieces by Babel. The last 9 plates show the architectural orders.
Contemporary cream full paper boards binding. Smooth spine with black sheep title-label. Treatise on perspective divided into 116 mathematical lessons, applicable to painting as well as architecture or other disciplines, each lesson being illustrated by a plate opposite. Jeaurat (1724-1803) was a French geographical engineer and astronomer, then professor of mathematics at the military school; his treatise had great success due to its practical and precise qualities. "This work has long been esteemed," Brunet III, 526.
Contemporary cream full paper boards binding. Smooth spine with black sheep title-label. Treatise on perspective divided into 116 mathematical lessons, applicable to painting as well as architecture or other disciplines, each lesson being illustrated by a plate opposite. Jeaurat (1724-1803) was a French geographical engineer and astronomer, then professor of mathematics at the military school; his treatise had great success due to its practical and precise qualities. "This work has long been esteemed," Brunet III, 526.
€780