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ANDROUET DU CERCEAU, Jacques. Lecons de perspective positive. Paris: Mamert Patisson, 1576.
2o (283 x 195 mm). 60 etched plates (some light mostly marginal staining). 18th-century French calf gilt. Provenance: Christophorus Bautru (early inscription on title); acquired from Marlborough Rare Books, 1971.
FIRST EDITION. "The plates have considerable charm because of the arrangements of the diagrams on the plates and the introduction of characteristic slim figures : all in crisp, clean lines" (Fowler). Berlin Kat. 4699; Fowler 26; Millard French 7.
[Bound with:]
ERRARD, Jean (1554-1610). Le premier livre des instruments de mathematiques mechaniques. Nancy: Jean Janson, 1584.
2o. 40 etched plates perhaps by the author, on 39 leaves (the first two on one plate). (Light, mostly marginal staining, tiny holes in center of plate 5.) Provenance: Christophorus Bautru (early inscription on title); some early marginalia.
FIRST EDITION of Errard's collection of plates depicting his mechanical inventions. One of the most beautiful and rarest of the "Machine Books" of the 16th-century. According to American Book Prices Current, no copy of this work has sold in at least the last 35 years. Mortimer French 211.
2o (283 x 195 mm). 60 etched plates (some light mostly marginal staining). 18th-century French calf gilt. Provenance: Christophorus Bautru (early inscription on title); acquired from Marlborough Rare Books, 1971.
FIRST EDITION. "The plates have considerable charm because of the arrangements of the diagrams on the plates and the introduction of characteristic slim figures : all in crisp, clean lines" (Fowler). Berlin Kat. 4699; Fowler 26; Millard French 7.
[Bound with:]
ERRARD, Jean (1554-1610). Le premier livre des instruments de mathematiques mechaniques. Nancy: Jean Janson, 1584.
2o. 40 etched plates perhaps by the author, on 39 leaves (the first two on one plate). (Light, mostly marginal staining, tiny holes in center of plate 5.) Provenance: Christophorus Bautru (early inscription on title); some early marginalia.
FIRST EDITION of Errard's collection of plates depicting his mechanical inventions. One of the most beautiful and rarest of the "Machine Books" of the 16th-century. According to American Book Prices Current, no copy of this work has sold in at least the last 35 years. Mortimer French 211.