LEONARDO DA VINCI (1452-1519). A Treatise of Painting ... adorn'd with a great number of Cuts. London: J. Senex and W. Taylor, 1721.
8o (190 x 111 mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait, title printed in red and black, 35 engraved plates (4 folding), ornamental woodcut initials and headpieces. (Some browning and staining.) Contemporary calf (rebacked).
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of Leonardo da Vinci's Trattato della pittura, first published in Italian in 1651. Lowndes VII, 2774.
LEONARDO DA VINCI (1452-1519). A Treatise of Painting ... adorn'd with a great number of Cuts. London: J. Senex and W. Taylor, 1721.
8o (190 x 111 mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait, title printed in red and black, 35 engraved plates (4 folding), ornamental woodcut initials and headpieces. (Some browning and staining.) Contemporary calf (rebacked).
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of Leonardo da Vinci's Trattato della pittura, first published in Italian in 1651. Lowndes VII, 2774.
