VINCI (Leonardo). Treatise on Painting. Paris, Printed by Jacques Langlois, 1651. Folio, grained calfskin, decorated spine (contemporary binding).

VINCI (Leonardo). Treatise on Painting. Paris, Printed by Jacques Langlois, 1651. Folio, grained calfskin, decorated spine (contemporary binding). First edition of the French translation of Leonardo da Vinci’s (1452–1519) theoretical writings on art. The illustrations consist of a copperplate-engraved frontispiece, signed Lochon, featuring a highly expressive portrait of Leonardo, and 56 intaglio engravings in the text based on drawings by Nicolas Poussin, depicting figures of geometry and

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