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Rules and Examples of
PERSPECTIVE
PROPER FOR
Painters and Architects, etc.
In English and Latin;
Containing a most easie and expeditious Method to
DELINEATE in PERSPECTIVE
All DESIGNS relating to ARCHITECTURE,
AFTER A NEW MANNER,
Wholly free from the Confusion of Occult Lines:
by that GREAT MASTER thereof,
ANDREA POZZO, Soc. Jes.
Engraven in 105 ample folio Plates, and adorn’d with 200 Initial Letters to
the Explanatory Discourses: Printed from Copper-Plates on ye best Paper
By John Sturt.
Done into English from the Original Printed at Rome 1693 in Lat. and Ital.
By Mr John James of Greenwich.
LONDON:
PRINTED by Benj. Motte, MDCCVII.
Sold by John Sturt in Golden-Lion-Court in
Aldersgate-Street.
PERSPECTIVA
PICTORUM
ET
ARCHITECTORUM,
ANDREÆ PUTEI,
E SOCIETATE JESU.
In quâ docetur Modus expeditissimus Delineandi
Opticè omnia quę pertinent ad Architecturam.
LONDINI:
Juxta Exemplar ROMÆ excusum, MDCXCIII.
Ex Sculpturâ Joannis Sturt, et ejusd. Curâ adornata:
TYPIS Benj. Motte, MDCCVII.
TO
Her most Sacred Majesty,
Queen ANNE.
May it please your Majesty!
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