[PILES (Roger de)]. Les premiers elemens de la peinture prat - Lot 146

[PILES (Roger de)]. Les premiers elemens de la peinture pratique. Enrichis de figures de proportion mesurées sur l'antique, desinées & gravées par J. B. Corneille peintre de l'Academie royale. A Paris, chez N. Langlois, 1684. In-12, [6] f. (1st blank), 96 p., figs, 18th c. mottled havana calf, 5-ribbed spine, red morocco title-piece, ornate caissons, gilt fillet at edges, red edges (head-cap uncovered, small worm's work at head of lower jaw, one corner dull). First edition of this important technical treatise on painting, illustrated with a title vignette, 2 culs-de-lampe and 7 figures in the text, all copper-engraved, including a full-page view of an easel and the first engraved representations of palettes. As is often the case, the following is bound in: - Figures d'académie pour apprendre à désiner. Engraved by Sébastien Le Clerc. A Paris, chez N. Langlois, s.d. Suite of 20 plates on the proportions of the human body, preceded by an engraved title. And a suite of 30 plates of nude male models, preceded by an allegorical engraved title addressed to Jombert and dated 1751.