[BEAUX-ARTS & MUSIQUE] Jacques-Antoine de REVERONI SAINT-CYR - Essai sur le perfectionnement des beaux-arts par les sciences exactes ou calculs et hypothèses sur la poésie, la peinture et la musique. By Pougens, Henrichs and Magimel, Paris 1813 - Uncommon first edition of this highly interesting work, whose author is renowned for his rich and varied output, including theater publications, novels and scientific literature. This text is one of his rarest. Complete with 4 folding plates, two of which relate to music and two to drawing. Contemporary bindings in full calf, framed with gilt lace and fillets, smooth boards with ornate boxes and morocco title-pieces. Slight rubbing, small loss at the tail of the first volume, snags at the head, not serious, a fine copy inside, very clean with no foxing. In-8, 226pp, 242pp (1) Provenance: G. Bontemps with heraldic bookplate