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Abraham BOSSE, Girard DESARGUES, Manière universelle de Mr Desargues, pour pratiquer la perspective par petit-pied, comme le géométral. Paris, Pierre Des Hayes, 1648 1 vol. in-8°: 9 f. (blank, title, title of 1st part, dedicatory epistle, table and "reconnaissance de Mr Desargues") 58 p., 1 f. with title-frontispiece on recto and pl. 1 on verso, pp. 59-168, 1 f. intertitle, 6 p. num. 173 to 184 (2 num. per page), pp. 169-176, pp. 193-312, 16 p. uncounted, pp. 321-342 [lacks last leaf of text, p. [343-344], in all 156 pl. of which one folding and 2 repeated (151 and 156). Bound in 19th-century ivory half-parchment, spines split. Compared to the copy described by Fowler, it lacks an engraved title dated 1647 and the portrait of the dedicatee Michel Larcher, as well as the last text leaf.Among the major difficulties encountered by perspective draftsmen, the representation of indirect light and shadow occupied the work and debates of the mid-seventeenth century.
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Abraham BOSSE, Girard DESARGUES, Manière universelle de Mr Desargues, pour pratiquer la perspective par petit-pied, comme le géométral. Paris, Pierre Des Hayes, 1648 1 vol. in-8°: 9 f. (blank, title, title of 1st part, dedicatory epistle, table and "reconnaissance de Mr Desargues") 58 p., 1 f. with title-frontispiece on recto and pl. 1 on verso, pp. 59-168, 1 f. intertitle, 6 p. num. 173 to 184 (2 num. per page), pp. 169-176, pp. 193-312, 16 p. uncounted, pp. 321-342 [lacks last leaf of text, p. [343-344], in all 156 pl. of which one folding and 2 repeated (151 and 156). Bound in 19th-century ivory half-parchment, spines split. Compared to the copy described by Fowler, it lacks an engraved title dated 1647 and the portrait of the dedicatee Michel Larcher, as well as the last text leaf.Among the major difficulties encountered by perspective draftsmen, the representation of indirect light and shadow occupied the work and debates of the mid-seventeenth century.
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