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Author additional ss Hondius, Hendrik, 1597–1651.

Collection Rare Books and Manuscripts

Subject Terms Drawing -- Technique -- Early works to 1800.

1. Practical perspective, or, Perspective made easie : teaching, by the opticks, how to delineate all bodies, buildings, or landskips, &c. : by the catoptricks, how to delineate confused appearences so as when seen in a mirror or pollisht body of any intended shape, the reflection shall shew a designe : by the dioptircks [sic], how to draw parts of many figures into one when seen through a glass or christal cut into many faces : usefull for all painters, engravers, architects, &c. and all others that are any waies inclined to speculatory ingenuity / by Joseph Moxon ; hydrographer to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty.

Practical perspective, or, Perspective made easie : teaching, by the opticks, how to delineate all bodies, buildings, or landskips, &c. : by the catoptricks, how to delineate confused appearences so as when seen in a mirror or pollisht body of any intended shape, the reflection shall shew a designe : by the dioptircks [sic], how to draw parts of many figures into one when seen through a glass or christal cut into many faces : usefull for all painters, engravers, architects, &c. and all others that are any waies inclined to speculatory ingenuity / by Joseph Moxon ; hydrographer to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty.

Creator:: Moxon, Joseph, 1627–1691
Date:: 1670. (fol.)
Physical Description:: [6], 66 p., LX [i.e. 42] leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill. ; 32 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts