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1. Practical perspective, or, Perspective made easie : teaching, by the opticks, how to delineate all bodies, buildings, or landskips, &c. : by the catoptricks, how to delineate confused appearences so as when seen in a mirror or pollisht body of any intended shape, the reflection shall shew a designe : by the dioptircks [sic], how to draw parts of many figures into one when seen through a glass or christal cut into many faces : usefull for all painters, engravers, architects, &c. and all others that are any waies inclined to speculatory ingenuity / by Joseph Moxon ; hydrographer to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty.

Practical perspective, or, Perspective made easie : teaching, by the opticks, how to delineate all bodies, buildings, or landskips, &c. : by the catoptricks, how to delineate confused appearences so as when seen in a mirror or pollisht body of any intended shape, the reflection shall shew a designe : by the dioptircks [sic], how to draw parts of many figures into one when seen through a glass or christal cut into many faces : usefull for all painters, engravers, architects, &c. and all others that are any waies inclined to speculatory ingenuity / by Joseph Moxon ; hydrographer to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty.

Creator:: Moxon, Joseph, 1627–1691
Date:: 1670. (fol.)
Physical Description:: [6], 66 p., LX [i.e. 42] leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill. ; 32 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Des ordres de colõnes en l'architecture, et plusieurs aũes dependances dicelle / par A. Bosse.

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Creator:: Bosse, Abraham, 1602–1676
Date:: 1664
Physical Description:: [1], A-V leaves : chiefly illustrations ; 42 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Traité des manieres de dessiner les ordres de l'architecture antique en toutes leurs parties : auec plusieurs belles particularitez qui nont point parû jusques a present, touchat. les bastimts. de marque comme, la naturelle entresuitte des gros et menüs membres de l'eurs degrez ou escaliers : puis, le moyen darrester par dessein et modelle en petit, les parties d'vn edifice, en sorte q'uestant executé en grand, il fasse l'effet que l'on senst proposé, et enfin, la pratique de trouuer la place geometrale des jours ombres et ombrages, sur les corps geometraux / par A. Bosse.

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Creator:: Bosse, Abraham, 1602–1676
Date:: MVICLXIIII [1664, i.e. 1665]
Physical Description:: [3], XLIV leaves : chiefly illustrations ; 42 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The practice of perspective: or, An easy method of representing natural objects according to the rules of art ... The whole illustrated with one hundred and fifty copper-plates. Written in French by a Jesuit of Paris; since translated into German ... and into English ... And now, a second time, into the same language, by E. Chambers ...

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Creator:: Dubreuil, Jean, 1602–1670
Date:: 1743
Physical Description:: xiii, [4], 16, 150, 150 p. ill., fold. diagrs. 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts