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L'art de dessiner proprement les plans, porfils, elevations geometrales, et perspectives, soit d'architecture militaire ou civile : avec tous les secrets les plus rares pour faire les couleurs avec lesquelles les ingenieurs representent les divers materiaux d'une place : et la maniere de s'en servir dans les vûës des sieges, campements, & autres morceaux de païsage

by: Gautier, H. (Henri), 1660-1737

Publication date: 1697

Topics: Architectural rendering, Shades and shadows in art, Perspective, Workshop recipes, Architecture, Decoration and ornament, Architectural, Architecture -- Dictionaries -- Early works to 1800, Decoration and ornament, Architectural -- Dictionaries -- Early works to 1800, Architecture -- Details -- Early works to 1800, Architecture -- Details

Publisher: A Paris : Chez Christophe Ballard ...

Collection: getty; americana

Contributor: Getty Research Institute

Language: French

Organized as an alphabetical list of objects to be represented by shading and color. The recipes for inks, colors, etc. follow on p. 220-256

Plates signed "P. Giffart" for Pierre Giffart, 1638-1723 (if not his son Pierre François, b. 1677)

Signatures: a A-X Y²; 136 leaves

Berlin. Ornamentstichsammlung

Binding: mottled calf. Spine tooled in gilt, title on red label. Page edges red

Old price at head of flyleaf facing t.p.; below it, a signature: Emilio

Authorship uncertain. Attributed by some to Henri (called Hubert) Gautier

Signatures: a⁶ A-X⁸/⁴ Y² [$4/2 signed ( -A4,R4,T4,V2,+O4)]; 136 leaves

Berlin. Ornamanentstichsammlung

Fougerolle livres rares. Art, archéologie, architecture, cérémonies, collections, jardins (Bulletin 39 (Oct. 1999))

Catalogo ragionato dei libri d'arte e d'antichità posseduti dal conte Cicognara, 405

Catalogo ragionato dei libri d'arte e d'antichità posseduti dal conte Cicognara, 807

[12], 257, [3] p., [2] folded leaves of plates : 17 cm. (12mo)