Traitté de la peinture /
Leonardo,da Vinci,1452-1519.
Fréart, Roland,sieur de Chambray,1606-1676,translator.
McCurdy, Edward,1871-,former owner.StEdNL
A Paris, : De l'imprimerie de Jacques Langlois, Imprimeur ordinaire du Roy, au mont Saincte Geneviefue, vis à vis la Fonteine, à la Reyne de Paix.,
M. DC. LI. [1651]. Avec priuilege de sa Maiesté..
Even while listing it 2nd in her bibliography, Steinitz cites the work of Bassoli and Pedretti in considering this French ed. to be 1st in the sequence of Leonardo's published Treatises (cf. footnote, p. 145).
Engraved half-title, with portrait.Title vignette; initials; head and tail pieces.
Steinitz, K.T.  Da Vinci's Trattato, 1651-1956,
Bookplate on the verso of the title page "Ex Libris Edward Alexander Coles MacCurdy". Various pages (1-8, 67-70, 73-80) have been supplied in manuscript in a possibly 19th-century hand.
The upper board is inscribed "Traité de Peinture par Léonard de Vinci avec additions Manuscrites par Prudhomme de l'académie de Peinture". The inner front and back boards have English language 19th-century newspaper cuttings.
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France Paris.