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Sébastian LE CLERC
Sébastian LE CLERC
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Discours touchant le point de veue, dans lequel il est prouvé que les choses qu'on voit distinctement, ne sont vues que d'un oeil. [12], 86 pp. Illustrated with 34 full page plates of which 9 are woodcuts and 25 are copperplate engravings. 12mo., 146 x 85 mm, bound in contemporary French mottled calf. Paris: Thomas Jolly, 1679.
First Edition. A rare book on the physiology of vision as related to artistic perspective by Sébastian Le Clerk (1637-1714), prolific author of such subjects. A work of particular aesthetic appeal with its mixture of woodcut and engraved illustration. A few copies contain a privilege at the end which appears to have been added to second print run, not present here or in most copies. A fine, unsophisticated copy, with just a little wear to the foot of the spine.
Berlin Catalogue 4723.




