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[Artist's manuals] A. Bosse. Algemeene Manier van de Hr. Desargues

tot de practijck der perspectiven gelijck tot die der meet-Kunde, met de kleyne voet-maat, mitsgaders der plaatsen, en proportien van de stercke en flaauwe rakingen, of kleuren. By-een gevoeght door Abraham Bosse, en uyt het Frans vertaalt van J. Bara. Amst., J. Dankerts, 1664, 2 parts in 1 vol. w. continuous pagination, (8),1-171,(1); (2),175-288 p., w. engr. title, allegorical frontisp. and 1 allegorical div. title and 159 plates (incl. 1 engr. div. title and number 151 and 156 used twice), contemp. vellum, sm. 8vo.

Occ. cut sl. short; sm. wormholes in outer lower right corner throughout. Otherwise a very good copy of the first Dutch ed. of this richly illustrated work presenting Bosse's universal method of perspective. Bound with: Algemeen middel tot de practijck der doorzight-kunde op tafereelen, of regel-lose buytengedaenten. Mitsgaders eenige bijzonderheden, nopende dees kunst, en die der plaet-snijdingh. Ibid., Idem, 1664, 64 pp., engr. frontispiece and 32 plates. The same sm. defects as the preceding; plate 21 and 27 (the only fold. plate) loose; occ. mispagination. With intriguing contemp. calligaraphed owner's entry "J.V. Dom" (?) on verso of the final plate. (total 2 works in 1 vol.)

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