LECLERC (Sébastien). Pratique de la géométrie sur le papier - Lot 289

LECLERC (Sébastien). Pratique de la géométrie sur le papier et sur le terrein... Paris, Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1744. In-12, 9.5 x 16.5 cm, 4 ff, 108 pp, 2 ff, frontispiece and 44 plates, contemporary binding in marbled brown calf, ribbed spine decorated with gilt motifs. Charming work of practical geometry illustrated by the author with a frontispiece and 82 plates on 44 sheets, each featuring a fine composition (architecture, popular scenes, characters, village views) topped by a geometric figure. The Messinian engraver Leclerc (1637-1714) was professor of perspective at the Académie de peinture. Without first flyleaf. A few stained and soiled leaves, small marginal tears but not missing.