Null [BEAUX-ARTS] Charles-Antoine JOMBERT - Method for learning to draw
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[BEAUX-ARTS] Charles-Antoine JOMBERT - Method for learning to draw Chez L. Cellot à Paris, 1784 - Beautiful edition of this important work first published in 1740, magnificently illustrated with 100 plates representing the different parts of the body after Raphael and other great masters, several academic figures drawn after nature by M. Cochin. Period binding in full calf, spine with 5 nerves, richly ornamented caissons, rubbing to boards, small snag at tail, corners bumped with leather missing from one corner. Overall fresh interior, a few pages soiled but not seriously soiled. Large in-4, (7) (1) 156pp (4) Graesse IV, 694. Sander 990

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[BEAUX-ARTS] Charles-Antoine JOMBERT - Method for learning to draw Chez L. Cellot à Paris, 1784 - Beautiful edition of this important work first published in 1740, magnificently illustrated with 100 plates representing the different parts of the body after Raphael and other great masters, several academic figures drawn after nature by M. Cochin. Period binding in full calf, spine with 5 nerves, richly ornamented caissons, rubbing to boards, small snag at tail, corners bumped with leather missing from one corner. Overall fresh interior, a few pages soiled but not seriously soiled. Large in-4, (7) (1) 156pp (4) Graesse IV, 694. Sander 990

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[BRISEUX (Charles-Étienne)]; JOMBERT (Charles-Antoine). Architecture moderne, ou l'art de bien bâtir... A Paris, chez C. Jombert, 1764. 2 vol. in-4, contemporary mottled havana calf, 5-rib spine, fawn title and giblets, ornate caissons, red edges (headbands uncovered, spine of t.1 split and worn, with central sections out of order, a few marginal defects including cracks in the margins of a few pages (t.1), small ink stains on 2 pages, one in the margin (t.1), discreet soiling on page 48 (t.2) and stain on page 130 of t.2). Last and most complete edition, established and enlarged by the bookseller C.-A. Jombert, of this treatise by the architect Briseux, which first appeared in 1728. According to the notice written by Jombert himself, "2nd ed. increased by two" (Quérard, France litt., IV, 1830, p. 241). The illustration consists of 2 frontispieces, 7 vignettes, 1 cul-de-lampe, 152 plates, all engraved on copper. The architect and decorator Charles-Etienne Briseux (1680-1754) published several theoretical and practical works on aesthetics and architecture, and built several châteaux in the provinces; he is also credited with the Hôtel d'Augny, which now houses the town hall of the 9th arrondissement of Paris (Berlin Kat. 2398).

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JEAURAT (Edme-Sébastien): Traité de perspective à l'usage des artistes, où l'on démontre géométriquement toutes les pratiques de cette science, & où l'on enseigne, selon la méthode de M. le Clerc, à mettre toutes sortes d'objets en perspective, leur réverbération dans l'eau, & leurs ombres, tant au soleil qu'au flambeau. Paris, Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1750. One volume. 19.5 by 26 cm. VI-(2)-240 pp. + 10 plates h.t. Contemporary full basane, 5-rib spine, ornate caissons, red title page. Hinges and corners skilfully restored. Very rare foxing, edges of title page slightly foxed. Otherwise in very good condition. The work includes 110 different plates, 10 of which are illustrated. In addition, 19 plates are given twice, for ease of reading (left-hand page with drawing method, right-hand page with example). Vignette and numerous culs-de-lampe. First edition of this great treatise on perspective, in very good condition.

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