Nov 08, 2007 - Sale 2127

Sale 2127 - Lot 276

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BOSSE, ABRAHAM. La Pratique du Trait à Preuves, de Mr Desargues Lyonnais, pour la Coupe des Pierres en l'Architecture. 115 full-page engraved illustrations on 58 leaves. [8], 56, 114 pages, including engraved title and engraved dedication. 8vo, later vellum; contents dampstained. Signature of the art historian Meyer Schapiro (1904-96). Paris: Pierre Des-Hayes, 1643
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first edition of a manual of the stonecutting method based on the controversial theory of perspective devised by the mathematician Girard Desargues (1591-1661), one of the founders of projective geometry. DSB IV, 48, and II, 333.