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LEONARDO DA VINCI. A Treatise of Painting. Engraved frontispiece portrait and 35 plates, including 4 folding. [16], 189, [9] pages, including 3 ad leaves at end. 8vo, later 19th-century panelled calf gilt, rebacked, cover corners restored, endpapers renewed; stamp inked out in lower margin of title, faint stamp in blank lower margin of page 33, repaired clean tear in plate facing page 105. London: J. Senex and W. Taylor, 1721
first edition in english; the original edition in Italian appeared in 1651, over a century after the author's death. "Leonardo's most important literary contribution was his approach to painting as a natural science, grounded in geometry and direct observation of natural phenomena. Through the Trattato della Pittura . . . Leonardo's ideas formed the core of academic artistic instruction for three centuries in many institutional settings" (OCIL).
