‎JOMBERT Charles-Antoine - COCHIN Charles-Nicholas - FARINASTE Paul :‎
‎Nouvelle méthode pour apprendre à dessiner sans maître, Où l'on explique par de nouvelles Démonstrations les premiers Elémens & les Regles generales de ce grand Art... Le tout accompagné de quantité d'Exemples, de plusieurs Figures Académiques dessinées d'après Nature, & des proportions du Corps Humain d'après l'Antique. enrichi de Cent vingt Planches.‎

‎" Paris, chez l'auteur, 1740, in-4°, 28 x 21 cm, 37 + (1) pp + 90 engraved plates ( Cochin) of which 1 double page and folding, 11 engraved vignettes, contemporary leather, raised and gilt decorated back, red edges, marbled endpapers, binding with some wear, front cover with some loss of leather which has been a bit crudely repaired, part of lower joint and the top turn-in restored, the first 4 pages show some tiny foxing spots; still a good / fine copy. Cont. handwritten ""ex libris de La Rocher"". Bound with; Diverses figures à l'eau forte de petits Amours, Anges vollants, et Enfans, propre a mettre sur frontons portes et autres lieux, Ensemble Plus.rs sortes de masques de l'invention de Paul Farinaste Italien, Paris, Jombert, 1736, 30 pl. C.A. Jombert, 1712-1784 and J. N. Cochin, 1715-1790, were friends. Fine copy of this classical 18th century drawing book which was illustrated by one of the leading French engravers at that time. The book is complete with the sometimes lacking suite of the Farinaste designs which are quite charming."‎

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