HEINEKEN (Paul).

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HEINEKEN (Paul).
Lucidum prospectivae speculum, Das ist: Ein heller Spiegel der Perspective. Augsburg, Jeremie Wolffs, 1727. In-folio, stiff vellum, blue speckled edges (Binding of the time). Guilmard, p. 425. First edition of this very beautiful and rare book on baroque perspective, by the German painter and architect Paul Heineken (1680-1746). The illustration, engraved in intaglio, includes a frontispiece engraved by Georg David Nessenthaler after the author, and 105 engravings spread over 95 plates representing views, church interiors, ornaments, altars, tombs, ceilings decorated in trompe-l'oeil, etc. Lower margin of the title cut out. Mottling at the top of the spine and at the bottom of the signatures.
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