LE CLERC, Sébastien (1637-1714). Pratique de la géométrie sur le papier et sur le terrain. Avec un nouvel ordre & une method particuliere . Paris: Jean Cusson for Thomas Jolly, 1669 [colophon dated 1668].
LE CLERC, Sébastien (1637-1714). Pratique de la géométrie sur le papier et sur le terrain. Avec un nouvel ordre & une method particuliere . Paris: Jean Cusson for Thomas Jolly, 1669 [colophon dated 1668]. 12 o (145 x 83 mm). Engraved frontispiece and full-page engravings in the text. (A few minor stains.) Contemporary calf (rebacked to match). Provenance : Thomas Rawlinson(1681-1725), Addison satirized him as 'Tom Folio' (his collation mark on preliminary blank verso; see De Ricci, pp. 45-46: "a very 'leviathan of book-collectors'"); A.H. Bargus (given by her father in 1805, inscription on title); George Vertue (signature on title, his sale 19 March 1957, lot 13); acquired from Paul Grinke, 1971. FIRST EDITION of this important and influential book. La Clerc 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 Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in 1672 and taught perspective there. He worked for Louis XIV, being made " graveur du Roi " (attached to the Cabinet du Roi), doing engraving work for the royal house. Leclerc also engaged in periodic work as a technical draftsman and military engineer. Bagnetti EIII b60.
LE CLERC, Sébastien (1637-1714). Pratique de la géométrie sur le papier et sur le terrain. Avec un nouvel ordre & une method particuliere . Paris: Jean Cusson for Thomas Jolly, 1669 [colophon dated 1668].
LE CLERC, Sébastien (1637-1714). Pratique de la géométrie sur le papier et sur le terrain. Avec un nouvel ordre & une method particuliere . Paris: Jean Cusson for Thomas Jolly, 1669 [colophon dated 1668]. 12 o (145 x 83 mm). Engraved frontispiece and full-page engravings in the text. (A few minor stains.) Contemporary calf (rebacked to match). Provenance : Thomas Rawlinson(1681-1725), Addison satirized him as 'Tom Folio' (his collation mark on preliminary blank verso; see De Ricci, pp. 45-46: "a very 'leviathan of book-collectors'"); A.H. Bargus (given by her father in 1805, inscription on title); George Vertue (signature on title, his sale 19 March 1957, lot 13); acquired from Paul Grinke, 1971. FIRST EDITION of this important and influential book. La Clerc 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 Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in 1672 and taught perspective there. He worked for Louis XIV, being made " graveur du Roi " (attached to the Cabinet du Roi), doing engraving work for the royal house. Leclerc also engaged in periodic work as a technical draftsman and military engineer. Bagnetti EIII b60.
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