DUBREUIL, Jean (1602-1670). The Practice of Perspective. English translation by Ephraim Chambers. London: Thomas and John Bowles, 1726. 4° (240 x 190mm.). Title in red and black. 150 full-page engraved illustrations. (Neat repair to lower margin of title, A1-D2 wormed at lower margin with occasional loss to catchwords. Some light browning and spotting.) Modern panelled calf. Provenance: T. Grey 1813; S. Northcote; J. King 1838 (1788-1847, artist); A. D. Yonge 1856 (successive dated signatures, top right corner of title). Originally published in 1642 under the title La Perspective pratique. Also known as the 'Jesuit Perspective'. -- Lodovico DOLCE (1508-1568). Dialogo della Pittura. Venice: Gabriel Gioliti de Ferrari, 1557. 8° (153 x 105mm.). Woodcut printer's device on title. (Some browning.) 19th-century green marbled boards (joints slightly split). Provenance: Pierre Gauthier (1790-1855, architect) (signature). Adams D-730. -- Anton Francesco DONI (1513-1574). Disegno ... partito in piu rationamenti, ne quali si tratta della scoltura et pittura. Venice: Gabriel Gioliti de Ferrari, 1549. 8° (163 x 95mm.). Woodcut printer's device on title and verso of final leaf, woodcut initials. (Some old damp-staining.) Later red morocco (scuffed). A RARE EDITION of an interesting treatise on the 16th-century debate on the superiority of sculpture over painting. -- Jean Felix WATIN. L'Art du Peintre, Doreur, Vernisseur et du Fabricant de Couleurs. Paris: J.-B. Imbert for Belin fils, 1808. 8° (203 x 120mm.). Half-title. (Title and half-title soiled, some damp-staining.) Near-contemporary roan-backed marbled boards, spine gilt (joints weak). -- Edmé-Sebastien JEAURAT (1724-1803). Traité de Perspective à l'usage des artistes. Paris: J. Chardon for Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1750. 4° (251 x 195mm.) Woodcut vignette on title-page, numerous engraved head- and tailpieces by Pierre Soubeyran or P. G. Babel. 129 engraved illustrations, numbered 1-110 with 19 illustrations printed twice and 8 half-page illustrations. (Illustration 27 is omitted and an impression of illustration 22 is repeated in its place, some browning to margins.) Contemporary French mottled calf, spine gilt. Provenance: Gilis (signature); Leonard Baskin (Fort Hill and Lurley Manor book labels). (5)