Bosse (Abraham) Traicté des Manieres de Graver en Taille Douce Sur l'Airin, first edition, 21 full-page engraved plates on 14 ff. including 2 additional engraved titles, dedication f., and 16 engraved plates, most printed on rectos and versos of the leaves, numbers 5 and 6 repeated as usual, front endpapers browned at margins and front endpapers working loose, contemporary speckled calf, joints cracked but holding firm, corners rubbed, 8vo, Paris, Bosse, 1645.

⁂ Scarce first edition of the first treatise on intaglio printmaking.

Bosse was a prolific engraver and author of several works on the arts of painting, drawing, and perspective. His treatise on the intaglio techniques, dedicated to "Messieurs les Amateurs" of the arts of engraving and etching, contains a lengthy and detailed series of instructions touching every aspect of engraving with a burin and etching on both hard- and soft-grounds.