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BRETEZ (Louis). La perspective pratique de l'architecture, contenant... une manière nouvelle, courte et aisée pour représenter en perspective les ordonnances d'architecture & les places fortifiées... Paris, Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1751. In-folio, 26 x 38.5 cm, 2 + 2 ff. frontispiece and 52 + 5 plates, contemporary binding in speckled fawn calf, spine ribbed and decorated with gilt motifs. Second edition, enlarged by 5 plates, of this unusual treatise on perspective and fortification published in 1706, comprising 60 engraved plates. A professor of perspective, Bretez (c. 1706-1739) drew Turgot's famous plan of Paris in 1739. A good copy. Marginal brown staining to last 12 plates. Bound at the head: [QUINZA (Francesco)]. Relazione della statua equestre di Carlo Magno eretta nel portico del Tempio Vaticano... Sienne, chez l'auteur, 1725. 2 ff. 46 pp. 1 f. First edition illustrated with engraved bands, vignettes and initials. A good copy. Some leaves uniformly browned. SAXE (Christoph Gottlieb). Diptychon Magni consulis... The Hague, Pierre de Hondt, 1762 ; 54 pp., 1 folded plate. First edition of this study of the Magnus consular diptych, based on its Carolingian whalebone copy (9th or 10th century), preserved in 1750 in the collection of the Count of Wassenaer in The Hague and acquired in the 19th century by the Bibliothèque nationale in Paris. Illustrated with an engraved plate depicting the Carolingian diptych. A good copy. Small marginal stain.
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BRETEZ (Louis). La perspective pratique de l'architecture, contenant... une manière nouvelle, courte et aisée pour représenter en perspective les ordonnances d'architecture & les places fortifiées... Paris, Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1751. In-folio, 26 x 38.5 cm, 2 + 2 ff. frontispiece and 52 + 5 plates, contemporary binding in speckled fawn calf, spine ribbed and decorated with gilt motifs. Second edition, enlarged by 5 plates, of this unusual treatise on perspective and fortification published in 1706, comprising 60 engraved plates. A professor of perspective, Bretez (c. 1706-1739) drew Turgot's famous plan of Paris in 1739. A good copy. Marginal brown staining to last 12 plates. Bound at the head: [QUINZA (Francesco)]. Relazione della statua equestre di Carlo Magno eretta nel portico del Tempio Vaticano... Sienne, chez l'auteur, 1725. 2 ff. 46 pp. 1 f. First edition illustrated with engraved bands, vignettes and initials. A good copy. Some leaves uniformly browned. SAXE (Christoph Gottlieb). Diptychon Magni consulis... The Hague, Pierre de Hondt, 1762 ; 54 pp., 1 folded plate. First edition of this study of the Magnus consular diptych, based on its Carolingian whalebone copy (9th or 10th century), preserved in 1750 in the collection of the Count of Wassenaer in The Hague and acquired in the 19th century by the Bibliothèque nationale in Paris. Illustrated with an engraved plate depicting the Carolingian diptych. A good copy. Small marginal stain.
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