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Architecture BRETEZ (Louis) The Practical Perspective...

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Architecture BRETEZ (Louis) The Practical Perspective of Architecture. Containing by lessons a new, short and easy way to represent in perspective the ordinances of architecture & the fortified places. A very useful work for painters, architects, engineers, and other draftsmen. Paris, Jombert, 1751. In folio: 3f. frontispiece and 57 plates out of text (1-52, 5 unnumbered) of which 55 with an explanatory text engraved in the plate and 2 with the explanatory text engraved on a separate sheet. Contemporary fawn granite basane, spine ribbed and decorated, small accident to head cover, foot cover damaged, one bit cracked at foot, double gilt fillet on the edges, one with small leather loss, red edges.