Pratique de la Geometrie, sur le Papier et sur le Terrain.

[Le Clerc, Sebastien.]

Verlag: Paris, et se Vend a Amsterdam, Chez Pierre Mortier. 1691.

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12mo. bound in 8's, pp: viii+1-185,[7], engraved title page with a full page engraving & printed vignette title page, 7pp index and 82 fine large engravings to the text, small worm hole to blank margin of front endpaper, endpapers browned to edges, otherwise very good in an antique style full calf. A good copy of an early and charmingly illustrated work on geometry. Text in French. Sebastien Leclerc or Le Clerc [baptized], 1637-1714, was a French artist from the Duchy of Lorraine. He specialized in subtle reproductive drawings, etchings and engravings of paintings; and worked mostly in Paris, where he was counseled by the King's painter, Charles Le Brun, to devote himself entirely to engraving. Leclerc joined the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in 1672 where he taught perspective. He worked for Louis XIV being made "graveur du Roi". He also engaged in periodic work as a technical draftsman and military engineer. Leclerc is accounted among the best French artists of the 17th century. He is credited with a remarkable intelligence; a delicacy in engraving the smallest drawings, and grandeur in his treatment of the most lavish subjects. "If there has ever been an engraver who rendered himself celebrated in his profession, and who extended his capabilities beyond ordinary bounds, that is, without fear of contradiction: Sebastien Le Clerc". Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 2009

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Titel: Pratique de la Geometrie, sur le Papier et ...

Verlag: Paris, et se Vend a Amsterdam, Chez Pierre Mortier. 1691.