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Sébastien LE CLERC Pratique de la géométrie sur le papier et sur le terrain ou par une méthode nouvelle et singulière l'on peut avec facilité et en peu de temps se perfectionner en cette science

Sébastien LE CLERC

Pratique de la géométrie sur le papier et sur le terrain ou par une méthode nouvelle et singulière l'on peut avec facilité et en peu de temps se perfectionner en cette science

Chez Jean Jomb, à Paris 1682, in 12 (16x9,5cm), (6) 188pp. (8), relié.


New edition, after the original of 1669. A frontispice and 82 figures

Binding in full veal brown of epoch, back with ornate nerves and piece of title in red morocco. Small antique restorations with borders and corners, cracked joints and a very slight lack of headdress of tail.

This treatise on geometry had an important influence, and Le Clerc (1637-1714) wrote it for all trades who used drawing, it is, above all, a practical treatise intended for use. The figures of geometry are presented among architectural scenery, characters, rural scenes. In addition to being a famous engraver, Le Clerc was an engineer-geographer, a professor of perspective, and he was admitted to the Academy as a painter. He also drafted a treatise on architecture. Louis XIV. Appointed him engraver of his cabinet.

Ex libris to the figure of the XXth not identified.

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