80/2765 [Artists' manuals]. (Dubreuil, J.). La perspective pratique. Deuxième partie. Paris, A. Dezallier, 1679, 1 vol. (of 3), (12),123,(6) lvs., engr. frontisp., 123 full-p. perspective ills., 3 vignettes, contemp. gilt calf, 4to.

- Frontisp. loosening; occas. sl. (finger)soiled; 2x sl. stained in the image; final few lvs. trifle wormholed. Spine-ends chipped; corners showing.

= First published in 1642-1649. De Backer/ Sommervogel II, p.144ff (first and second ed.); Kat. Orn. Berlin 4714 (first ed.); Cicognara 823 (first ed.); Fowler 108 (first ed. of part 1 only); Millard French Books 63 and 64 (first and second ed.): "Jean Dubreuil became a Jesuit in 1642 and spent several years in Rome. His work on perspective is probably the most influential ever published expressly for the use of a lay audience. (...) Dubreuil is opposed to the revolutionary and universal method of Gerard Desargues." (p.155).