Traité des pratiques geometrales et perspectiues : enseignées dans l'Academie royale de la peinture et sculpture

Printed by Antoine Cellier; see colophon Signatures: ã⁴ ẽ⁴ A-R⁴ S² Errata, ẽ2v Added t.p., first page of dedication, and title of plate section are engraved. 6 and 7 repeated in numbering plates. Overlays on plate 50. Plate 67 double page, verso of 2nd leaf blank Engraved first page of dedication printed on ã2r in Getty c. 2, the dedication continuing in letterpress on ã2v. However in c. 1 it is printed on a separate leaf and tipped in, ã2r being blank Getty c. 1 lacks overlays on plate 50 In margins of Getty c. 1 are 27 small drawings in pen and brown ink, mostly of insects and floral forms, 2 views of rural buildings Binding, c. 1: old calfskin, rebacked, traces of gilt tooling on spine and edges of boards, page edges red & brown. Now in red clamshell box. Bookseller's label of Bachelier, Paris Binding, c. 2: vellum, title & author written at head of spine Calligraphic signature in brown ink of Charpantier on t.p. of c. 1, Theodore Besterman's label on front pastedown, signed P.S. Ulrich Middeldorf's printed label on front pastedown of c. 2 [16], 140 pages, 67 [i.e. 69] pages of plates (1 on folded leaf) : 18 cm (8vo) Colophon: A Paris : De l'imprimerie d'Antoine Cellier ..., 1665 Includes engraved 1st page of dedication and engraved special t.p. for the plates on recto of plate 1 Signatures: a⁴ e⁴ A-R⁴ S²