"11. Paris, Mme Ve Courcier, Librairie pour les Sciences, 1821, in-4°, xii pp (with title and half-title) + 456 pp + (2)nn pp (errata). (Bound with) ; '' Planches Gravées par Jean Adam pour le Traité de la Science du Dessin. Paris, Mme Veuve Courcier, 1821, engraved title + 7 pp (index) + (1)nn pp (avis au relieur) + 55 engraved plates. Bound in modern half leather with marbled boards, gilt title on spine. Nice copy. This is a rare copy of the first edition, complete with the atlas (missing in the BN Paris) of Vallée's treatise on perspective and the mechanism of vision. In 1844 the author expounded his ideas on vision in a separate work (Théorie de l'oeil). See Poggendorff II , 1168; also Kemp p. 231 and Vagnetti Flb 24.."