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BOSSE (Abraham). Traité des pratiques géométrales et perspectives enseignées dans l'académie royale de la peinture et sculpture, très utiles pour ceux qui désirent exceler en ces arts et autres où il faut employer la règle et le compas. Paris, chez l'auteur, 1665. Small in-4 (18 x 12 cm), brown calf, ornate ribbed spine (period binding). Heads, spines and corners worn. Interior faded, hole with loss of text pp. 28-29. 66 double-sided engraved plates (ch. 2-65, plate 1 is missing and plates 6 and 7 are double-sided). Also included: LIBERT (Lambert), Traité élémentaire et pratique du dessin et de la peinture à l'usage des jeunes artistes, fifth edition. Paris, Delarue, Lille, Castiax, 1825. In-12, green half-sheepskin, smooth spine decorated (period binding). Spine faded, covers worn. Enhanced fold-out frontispiece (palette illustrating how to mix colors).

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BOSSE (Abraham). Traité des pratiques géométrales et perspectives enseignées dans l'académie royale de la peinture et sculpture, très utiles pour ceux qui désirent exceler en ces arts et autres où il faut employer la règle et le compas. Paris, chez l'auteur, 1665. Small in-4 (18 x 12 cm), brown calf, ornate ribbed spine (period binding). Heads, spines and corners worn. Interior faded, hole with loss of text pp. 28-29. 66 double-sided engraved plates (ch. 2-65, plate 1 is missing and plates 6 and 7 are double-sided). Also included: LIBERT (Lambert), Traité élémentaire et pratique du dessin et de la peinture à l'usage des jeunes artistes, fifth edition. Paris, Delarue, Lille, Castiax, 1825. In-12, green half-sheepskin, smooth spine decorated (period binding). Spine faded, covers worn. Enhanced fold-out frontispiece (palette illustrating how to mix colors).

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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.

Lot 13

Estim. 400 - 500 EUR

BOSSE (Abraham). Collection of 2 works, bound in a small in-8 volume, glazed fawn calf, smooth spine cloisonné and decorated with gilded motifs with garnet-red title-piece, triple gilded fillet framing the covers with corner finials, filleted edges, inner gilded roulette, edges speckled with red; upper headband damaged, corners worn (binding circa 1700). One of France's most illustrious engravers, Abraham Bosse (c. 1604-1676), was the son of a German tailor who immigrated to Tours. Also a mathematician and geometer, he published personal works on geometry and the art of engraving, including several based on treatises by the architect and engineer Girard Desargues on perspective, sundials and stereotomy. Reunion of his two major books on perspective, one theoretical and the other practical. -Maniere universelle de MrDesargues, pour pratiquer la perspective par petit-pied, comme le geometral. Ensemble les places et proportions des fortes & foibles touches, teintes ou couleurs. AParis, de l'imprimerie de Pierre Des-Hayes. 1647 [on title-frontispieces] and 1648 [on printed title]. Small in-8, 352pp. as follows: 16pp. unnumbered, pp.1to168, 8pp. (with 2columns per page, numbered 169to184), pp.169to176 (counting as 185to192), pp.193to312, 8pp. unnumbered (counting as 313to320), pp.321to342, 2pp. unnumbered. First edition. Important copper-engraved illustration by Abraham Bosse. Off-text: title-frontispiece, portrait of Michel Larcher, and 81ff. of mostly double-sided plates (bearing a second frontispiece and 156 numbered stamped compositions, 2 of which are repeated). One of the plate leaves has been folded by the binder and attached to the outer margin of a text leaf. In the text, 2 vignettes: a dedication to Michel Larcher, illustrated with his coat of arms, and a numerical demonstration accompanying composition no. 156 (Abraham Bosse, savant graveur, Maxime Préaud and Sophie Join-Lambert dir., Paris, BnF, et Tours, musée des Beaux-Arts, pp.61-62, 244-251 et325; Berlin, no. 4716; Fowler, no. 56). A great scientific and artistic treatise. Using a rational Cartesian pedagogy, Abraham Bosse expounds and extends the theories of Girard Desargues: he deals with perspective applied to the drawing of figures and their shadows, then applied to variations in hue and color according to the distance of the objects represented, and adds to this theoretical complements including the treatise that Girard Desargues himself had published in 1636. He suggests the conformity of geometrical and perspectival drawing: "geometrical drawing" means drawing the orthogonal projection of an object on a horizontal or vertical plane, enabling builders or craftsmen to read dimensions and carry out fabrication or construction. To practice "le perspectif" (the leterme of "petit pied" means a reduced scale) is to draw an object seen from a certain point at a given distance, which falls within the liberal arts, and is the prerogative of the architect. By suggesting this conformity of the "geometrical" and the "perspectival", Abraham Bosse overturns traditional hierarchies and "gives the handicraftsmen their letters of nobility. If we add to this the aggregation of engraving and painting in what [he] calls the art of portraiture, there can be no doubt that he attempted an intellectual and social liberalization of the art of engraving" (Abraham Bosse, savant graveur, op.cit., p.244). This Manière universelle earned Abraham Bosse admission to the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, where he was called upon to teach the practice of perspective, and was widely distributed in Europe: it was translated into Dutch, and inspired the first major English treatise on perspective, published in 1719 by the mathematician Brook Taylor. A teacher of Blaise Pascal and esteemed scholar of René Descartes, the architect and geometer Girard Desargues (1591-c. 1661) frequented Père Mersenne's circle and was a friend of Abraham Bosse. He is considered the founder of projective geometry, and one of the inventors of the geometric coordinate system (which, however, was given the less legitimate name of Descartes). He published four treatises, including one on perspective in 1636, a veritable Bible for Abraham Bosse, who was among those who did most to spread his ideas. Although overshadowed by Descartes and Pascal, Girard Desargues' work was rediscovered in the following century by Gaspard Monge, and developed in the 19th century by mathematicians Jean-Victor Poncelet and Charles-Julien Brianchon.

Lot 1972

Estim. 150 - 200 EUR

BOSSE (Abraham). Traité des pratiques géométrales et perspectives, enseignées dans l'Académie royale de peinture et sculpture. Paris, Chez l'auteur, 1665. In-8 marbled basane, smooth ornate spine, red marbled title page, red edges (post. rel., 18th century). Small loss at head cap. The copper-engraved illustrations include a frontispiece, a dedication page, an intermediate title ("Les Pratiques par figures...") and 69 full-page plates. A very fine copy.

Lot 137

Estim. 300 - 400 EUR

Charles Abraham CHASSELAT (Paris 1782-1843) Saint Solange Pen and brown ink, watercolor over black pencil lines. Signed and dated 1839 lower center. Slightly oiled, small stains. 32.6 x 23 cm

Charles Abraham CHASSELAT (Paris 1782-1843) Saint Solange Pen and brown ink, watercolor over black pencil lines. Signed and dated 1839 lower center. Slightly oiled, small stains. 32.6 x 23 cm

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