Drawing, Perspective & Printmaking.- Bosse (Abraham) Maniere universelle de Mr Desargues pour pratiquer la perspective par petit-pied comme le geometral..., 2 vol., first edition, engraved pictorial title, engraved frontispiece (bound as frontispiece to vol. 2, before half-title), 81ff. engraved plates, comprising 156 numbered whole-page illustrations (to recto & verso) as well as some letterpress engraved ff., pictorial title possibly tipped-on to front endpaper and a little frayed at fore-edge, Paris, Pierre Des Hayes, 1647, bound with Explication par Figures et par Discours..., engraved title, 15ff. (recto & verso) and 2 double-page engraved plates, slight damp-staining towards end, 1653, together 2 works, occasional spotting, contemporary calf, spine gilt, joints cracked but holding, light wear to extremities; Traicté des manieres de graver en taille douce sur l'airin, 14 engraved illustrations only (of 21), on 10ff. including engraved title and dedication, but lacking frontispiece, plates 9-10, 15-18, some printed on recto and verso, duplicate no.5 & 6 as usual, some marginal finger-soiling and browning, modern half calf, Paris, Abraham Bosse, 1645, 8vo (3)

⁂ Two first editions of Bosse. I: His finely illustrated exposition of perspective in drawing, taken from the work of the mathematician Girard Desargues (1591-1661), whose lectures he attended in Paris in the early 1640s. II: Scarce first edition of the first treatise on intaglio printmaking.