Bosse, Abraham

Traité des Manieres de Graver en Taille Douce sur l'Airin. Paris: chez Bosse, 1645



8vo (6 3/4 x 4 1/4 in.; 172 x 108 mm). Additional engraved title page, engraved section title, 18 engraved plates numbered 1-16 including two duplicates (5,6), engraved dedication page with 2 lines of letterpress below, a few woodcut text diagrams, extra-illustrated with 5 examples of trade cards by Pierre Paul Sevin etched by F. Ertinger dated 1688; very light marginal browning and soiling. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, gilt-stamped title label on spine; edges and joints rubbed, corners torn.

Gabriel de Chaponais (ms. exlibris dated 1680)

Berlin Kat 4652; Cicognara 251; Norman 279

very light marginal browning and soiling. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, gilt-stamped title label on spine; edges and joints rubbed, corners torn.
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First edition. "The first technical treatise on engraving and etching techniques by one of France's most important graphic artists of the seventeenth century; it remained a standard text for over one hundred years" (Norman).

The present copy is decorated with five trade cards by the Lyons artist Pierre Paul Sevin (1650-1710) who had recently set up in Paris with the Antwerp artist Cornelis Vermeulen (1644-1708).