Beschreibung:

CAUS, Salomon de (1576-1626). La perspective, avec la raison des ombres et miroirs . London: Jan Norton, 1612, with added imprint: Frankfurt: the widow Hulsius, [1619 or later]. First edition, second issue, of the first treatise on perspective printed in England (Lowndes), and apparently only the second book printed in England to make use of folding or pop-up flaps in illustrations, after John Dee's Euclid of 1570. Much of the work is given to anamorphic drawing and problematic representation, including optical illusions, complex projections, mirroring, and the drawing of shadow in perspective. The present lot is the first edition, second issue, the engraved title having the additional imprint: 'Francfort ches la vesue de Hulsius'. Printing was shared between Richard Field in London who produced the preliminaries and the letterpress for some chapters, and Mommart in Brussels who printed the remainder. Berlin Kat. 4706; Brunet I, 1691; Graesse II, 90; Lowndes I, 394; STC 4869. Folio (417 x 280mm). Engraved title, 80 engraved illustrations some of these full-page, woodcut head- and tailpieces (a very few plates just trimmed along one edge, a few leaves with a small dampstain mostly in the margin, some light marginal soiling, one plate spotted). Early, probably contemporary limp vellum, spine lettered in manuscript in a later hand (lacking ties, light soiling). Provenance : ?Frederic Krachler (early signature on title) – bookplate removed – the Arcana collection.