Traité des pratiques geometrales et perspectives
Subtitle: enseignées dans l'Academie royale de la peinture et sculpture
By: par A. Bosse ...
Contributors: Cellier, Antoine, 17th cent; Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture (France)
Publisher: Chez l'auteur ...
Published: 1665
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 140
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Perspective; Mechanical drawing
Other titles: Traité des pratiqves geometrales et perspectives
Notes: 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.