Die durch Theorie erfundene Patractic, oder Gründlich-verfasste Reguln derer man sich als einer Anleitung zu berühmter Kunstlere Zeichen-Werken bestens bedienen kan. [BOUND WITH] Grüüdliche Anleitung, welcher man sich im Nachzeichnen schöner Landschafften oder Prospecten bedienen kan..... [AND BOUND WITH] L'anatomia dei pittori del Signor Carlo Cesio, das ist: deutiche Anweisung und gründliche Vorstelling von der Anatomie der Mahler ... zu mehrern Aufnahm der Mahler-und-Zeichen-kunst in das Teutsche getreulich übersetzet mitgetheilet von Johann Daniel Preissler.

Nuremburg, 1774-1783. Good. Three works bound together in three uniform volumes. Folio (37 cm). Complicated collation includes title pages, text, and 105 engraved plates. In brown mottled paste-paper over boards, worn and abraded. Some foxing, especially on title pages and text pages, but good overall. Contemporary ownership inscription on endleaves.

Seventh edition of all three works. Preissler's scarce and interesting manual on the principles of drawing is fully illustrated with plates of human figures and landscapes. It also reprionts the important anatomical studies of Carlo Cesio (1626-1686), whose Anatomia dei pittori was first published in 1697. This is essentially a book of anatomy for artists, illustrated with two skeletons and fourteen myologic plates. (Inventory #: 6397)