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.

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.