Paris, Chez l’Auteur, 1670.
Optique de portraiture et peinture, en deux parties….
Very rare first edition of the Royal Academician Grégoire Huret’s (1606-70) two-part treatise on the art of geometric perspective, illustrated with two engraved frontispieces and eight folding engravings designed and executed by the author himself. Part 1 is concerned with practical matters (la perspective pratique) and comprises 182 numbered sections..... More
