La Perspective Pratique

Complete title: La Perspective Pratique, necessaire a tous peintres, graveurs, sculpteurs, architectes, orfeures, brodeurs, tapissiers & autres fe fervans du Deffein, par un Parisien religieux de la Compagnie de Iesus.

Title, added engraved frontispiece, dedication, preface and instructive table with decorated engraved headletters, and 150 full page engraved plates on different principles of perspective applied to architecture, interiors, geometry, painting, sculpture etc.. First edition of this Dubreuil's (1602-1670) classic text on perspective, reprinted many times in later editions, in same and different formats.

On frontispiece: ex Libris S. Baglioni (stamp) and pencil writing with name of author and reference to Catalogue Barbier.

Binding in contemporary parchemin, spine with 5 nerves, inside excellent conditions.