Lot 283
Perspective.- Curabelle (Jacques) Examen des Oeuvres du Sr. Desargues, first edition, Paris, M. & I. Henault, 1644
Estimate: £2,000 - 3,000
Description
Perspective.- Curabelle (Jacques) Examen des Oeuvres du Sr. Desargues, first edition, engraved title with slight stain, 17 engraved illustrations, some full-page, woodcut decorations, occasional foxing and light browning, some marginal staining and worming, later vellum-backed blue paper boards, spine worn, covers browned and stained, Paris, M. & I. Henault, 1644.
⁂ Includes the very rare supplement Foiblesse pittoyable..., 1644, 10pp., bound at end. Important work in the 'perspective wars' of the 1640s in which Curabelle attacks Girard Desargues (1591-1661) "the greatest perspectivist and projective geometer of his generation" (Kemp, The Science of Art, 1990, p.120).
Provenance: The Earls of Macclesfield (bookplate and embossed library stamp to first 3ff. as usual).
Description
Perspective.- Curabelle (Jacques) Examen des Oeuvres du Sr. Desargues, first edition, engraved title with slight stain, 17 engraved illustrations, some full-page, woodcut decorations, occasional foxing and light browning, some marginal staining and worming, later vellum-backed blue paper boards, spine worn, covers browned and stained, Paris, M. & I. Henault, 1644.
⁂ Includes the very rare supplement Foiblesse pittoyable..., 1644, 10pp., bound at end. Important work in the 'perspective wars' of the 1640s in which Curabelle attacks Girard Desargues (1591-1661) "the greatest perspectivist and projective geometer of his generation" (Kemp, The Science of Art, 1990, p.120).
Provenance: The Earls of Macclesfield (bookplate and embossed library stamp to first 3ff. as usual).
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