LEONARDO DA VINCI (1452-1519). A Treatise of Painting ... adorn'd with a great number of cuts, London: J. Senex and W. Taylor, 1721. 8° (190 x 111mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait, title printed in red and black, 35 engraved plates, including 4 folding, ornamental woodcut initials and headpieces. (Inscription on title erased causing large stains, mainly marginal soiling, disbound.) Contemporary calf (covers detached, spine broken, worn). Provenance: Jacob Walton; Thomas Bacon and Mary; James Bibby Rumbulb (inscriptions on pastedown) -- Charles William Quinn (bookplate).

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LEONARDO DA VINCI (1452-1519). A Treatise of Painting ... adorn'd with a great number of cuts, London: J. Senex and W. Taylor, 1721. 8° (190 x 111mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait, title printed in red and black, 35 engraved plates, including 4 folding, ornamental woodcut initials and headpieces. (Inscription on title erased causing large stains, mainly marginal soiling, disbound.) Contemporary calf (covers detached, spine broken, worn). Provenance: Jacob Walton; Thomas Bacon and Mary; James Bibby Rumbulb (inscriptions on pastedown) -- Charles William Quinn (bookplate).

FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of Leonardo da Vinci's Trattato della pittura, first published in Italian in 1651. Lowndes VII, 2774.

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