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Small 4to (182 x 133 mm) 4 nn.ll. including engraved title, 174 pp., 4 unn.ll. Contemporary calf, triple gilt filet on covers, spine with raised bands, red speckled edges (scuffed, hinges worn).
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See de Vitry, 89 (only for the edition 1628).
A handsome illustrated edition of this work intended for the instruction of the young King Louis XIII, written by the tutor of Louis de Bourbon-Soissons. Geometry is explained here in 52 problems, in which Boulenger also discusses how to apply perspective to the creation of charters, maps, topographical views and paintings. Jean Boulenger (circa 1550 – 1637), a native of Troyes, worked as an engraver in his home town and in Paris in the 1610s and 1620s.
He was a mathematician and a member of the Collège Royale from 1607.
Binding rubbed, stains, weak spine.
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