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• Mechanical drawing -- Early works to 1800
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• Drawing -- Dictionaries -- Early works to 1800
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• Divina Proportione: Opera a Tutti Glingegni Perspicaci e Curiosi Necessaria oue Ciascun Studioso di Philosophia; Prospettiua Pictura Sculptura; Architectura; Musica; e Altre Mathematice; Suavissima; Sotile; e Admirabile Doctrina Consequira; e Delecterassi, Co Varie Questione de Secretissima Scientia (in Italian; Venice: A. Paganius Paganinus characteribus elegantissimis accuratissime imprimebat, 1509), by Luca Pacioli, contrib. by Antonio Capella, illust. by Leonardo da Vinci
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• Arte da pintura (Na typographica chalcographica, typoplastica, e litteraria, do Arco do Cego, 1801), by Gérard de Lairesse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Arcadia pictórica en sueño, alegoría (Por Don Antonio de Sancha, 1789), by Francisco Preciado de la Vega and Antonio de Sancha (page images at HathiTrust)
• The excellency of the pen and pencil, exemplifying the uses of them in the most exquisite and mysterious arts of drawing, etching, engraving, limning, painting in oyl, washing of maps & pictures : also the way to cleanse any old painting, and preserve the colours : collected from the writings of the ablest masters both antient and modern ... (Printed for Dorman Newman ..., 1688) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Divers habillemens des anciens grecs et romains (Chez G. Audran, graveur du roy ..., 1700), by Sébastien Le Clerc and Gérard Audran (page images at HathiTrust)
• The golden cabinet : being the laboratory, or handmaid to the arts : containing such branches of useful knowledge, as nearly concerns all kinds of people, from the squire to the peasant, and will afford both profit and delight. (Printed and sold by William Spotswood and H. & P. Rice ..., 1793), by Patrick Rice, Henry Rice, and William Spotswood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grand livre des peintres (Chez Moutard, libraire-imprimeur de la reine & de l'Académie des sciences ..., 1787), by Gérard de Lairesse, Nicolas-Léger Moutard, Robert Bénard, and Hendrik Jansen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alfabeto in sogno : esemplare per disegnare ([publisher not identified], 1683), by Giuseppe Maria Mitelli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anatomy improv'd and illustrated with regard to the uses thereof in designing : not only laid down from an examen of the bones and muscles of the human body, but also demonstrated and exemplified from the most celebrated antique statues in Rome : exhibited in a great number of copper plates, with all the figures in various views : intended originally for ye use of the Royal French Academy of Painting and Sculpture (John Senex, 1723), by Charles Errard, John Senex, Michael van der Gucht, Giovanni Maria Lancisi, Bernardino Genga, and Italy) Accademia di Francia (Rome (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of drawing, and painting in water-colours : whereby a stranger to those arts may be immediately render'd capable of delineating any view or prospect with the utmost exactness : of colouring any print ... and of taking off medals ... : intermix'd with ... receipts ... : with instructions for making transparent colours ... partly from some curious personages in Holland, France and Italy, but chiefly from a manuscript of ... Mr. Boyle ... (Printed for J. Peele ..., 1735), by John Peele and Robert Boyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discurso sobre as utilidades do desenho (Na offic. de Antonio Rodrigues Galhardo, 1788), by Joaquim Machado de Castro (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kurzgefasste Regeln zu perspectivischen Zeichnungen : vermittelst eines zu deren Ausübung so wie auch zu geometrischen Zeichnungen eingerichteten Proportional-Zirkels (Verlegts Eberhardt Kletts seel., Wittib, 1768), by Johann Heinrich Lambert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thoughts on outline, sculpture, and the system that guided the ancient artists in composing their figures and groupes : accompanied with free remarks on the practice of the moderns, and liberal hints cordially intended for their advantage : to which are annexed twenty-four designs of classical subjects invented on the principles recommended in the essay by George Cumberland. (Printed by W. Wilson ... and sold by Messrs. Robinson ... and T. Egerton ..., 1796), by George Cumberland, Thomas Egerton, William Wilson, William Blake, and Messrs. Robinson (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conférence de Monsieur le Brun : premier peintre du Roi de France ... sur l'expression générale et particulière des passions (Chez Bernard Picart, 1713), by Charles Le Brun and Bernard Picart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Principes du dessein tirés d'après les antiques statues : ouvrage fort interessant à tous ceux qui s'appliquent aux beaux arts (Dans l'imprimerie Pagliarini, 1786), by Raffaello Morghen and Giovanni Volpato (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Excellency of the pen and pencil exemplifying the uses of them in the most exquisite and mysterious arts of drawing, etching, engraving, limning, painting in oyl, washing of maps & pictures, also the way to cleanse any old painting, and preserve the colours : collected from the writings of the ablest masters both ancient and modern, as Albert Durer, P. Lomantius, and divers others ; furnished with divers cuts in copper, being copied from the best masters ... (London : Printed by Thomas Ratcliff and Thomas Daniel, for Dorman Newman and Richard Jones ..., 1668), by Albrecht Dürer (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The art of dravving vvith the pen, and limming in water colours more exactlie then heretofore taught and enlarged with the true manner of painting vpon glasse, the order of making your furnace, annealing, &c. Published, for the behoofe of all young gentlemen, or any els that are desirous for to become practicioners in this excellent, and most ingenious art, by H. Pecham., gent. (At London : Printed by Richard Braddock, for William Iones, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Gun neere Holburn Conduit, 1606), by Henry Peacham (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Trattato teorico-pratico di prospettiva di Eustachio Zanotti. (Dalla Società tipografica de' classici Italiani, 1825), by Eustachio Zanotti, Giovanni Boggi, and Società tipografica de' classici italiani (page images at HathiTrust)
• Direzioni della prospettiva teorica corrispondenti a quelle dell'architettura (Nella stamperìa di Lelio dalla Volpe, 1753), by Ferdinando Galli Bibiena and Accademia clementina (page images at HathiTrust)
• Varia commensuracion para la escultura y arquitectura (Por Don Plácido Barco Lopez ..., 1795), by Juan de Arfe y Villafañe, Plácido Barco López, and Pedro Enguera (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pratica di prospettiva del Cavaliere Lorenzo Sirigatti (Per Girolamo Franceschi sanese, libraio in Firenze, 1596), by Lorenzo Sirigatti, Francesco de Franceschi, and Girolamo de Franceschi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Varia conmensvracion para la escvltvra y arqvitectvra (Por Francisco Sanz ... :, 1675), by Juan de Arfe y Villafañe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les régles du dessein et du lavis : pour les plans particuliers des ouvrages & des bâtimens, & pour leurs coupes, profils, elevations & façades, tant de l'architecture militaire que civile (Chez Charles-Antoine Jombert ..., 1754), by M. Buchotte and Charles-Antoine Jombert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Architetture, e prospettive dedicate alla maestà di Carlo Sesto imperador de' Romani (Sotto la Direzione di Andrea Pfeffel, 1740), by Giuseppe Galli Bibiena, Martin Mytens, Salomon Kleiner, Joseph Schmutzer, Andreas Schmutzer, Lorenzo Zucchi, and Johann Andreas Pfeffel (page images at HathiTrust)
• In dem antiquen progressions-quadrat der lunae durch Zahlen, Buchstaben und Linien verhüllte entia invisiblia (Zu finden bey Johann Christoph Weigels seel. Wittwe. :, 1734), by Johann Jacob Schübler and Johann Christoph Weigel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rules for drawing the several parts of architecture, in a more exact and easy manner than has been heretofore practised, by which all fractions, in dividing the principal members and their parts, are avoided (Printed for W. Innys and J. Richardson, J. and P. Knapton, C. Hitch and L. Hawes, R. Manby and H.S. Cox, 1753), by James Gibbs (page images at HathiTrust)
• British architect (Printed by R. Bell ... for John Norman ..., 1775), by Abraham Swan and John Norman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Perspectiva pes picturae (In Verlag Johann Christoph Weigels, Kunsthändlers, 1719), by Johann Jacob Schübler, Johann Christoph Weigel, Johann Daniel de Montalegre, Michael Jindřich Rentz, and Hieronymus Böllmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• La perspective pratique de l'architecture. Contenant par leçons une maniere nouvelle, courte et aisʹee pour représenter en perspective les ordonnances d'architecture & les places fortifiʹees. Ouvrage tres-utile aux peintres, architectes, ingénieurs, & autres dessinateurs. (chez Charles-Antoine Jombert..., 1751), by Louis Bretez and Charles-Antoine Jombert (page images at HathiTrust)

• Recueil de desseins gravés d'après les fameux maitres : tirés de la collection de l'Academie Electorale Palatine des beaux Arts à Düsseldorff. (s.n.], 1780), by Germany) Kurfürstliche Kunstakademie (Düsseldorf (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lady Hamilton's attitudes (s.n.], 1794), by Friedrich Rehberg (page images at HathiTrust)

• The analysis of beauty : written with a view of fixing the fluctuating ideas of taste (Printed by J. Reeves for the author and sold by him at his house in Leicester-Fields, 1753), by William Hogarth and John Reeves (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anatomy of painting (Printed by George Scott, and sold by T. Cadell, bookseller ..., 1769), by Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Aulus Cornelius Celsus, James Caldwall, Peter Benazech, and John Brisbane (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prima parte della luce del dipingere et disegnare (Ende men vintse te koop by Ian Iantsz. ... als mede by den Autheur selve ..., 1643), by Crispijn van de Passe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clariss. pictoris et geometræ Alberti Dureri, De varietate figurarum et flexuris partium ac gestib. imaginum (Impensis viduæ Durerianæ, per Hieronymum Formschneyder Norinbergæ., 1534), by Albrecht Dürer and Joachim Camerarius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Divers habillemens des anciens grecs et romains (Chez G. Audran, graveur du roy ..., 1700), by Sébastien Le Clerc and Gérard Audran (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scuola perfetta per imparare a disegnare tutto il corpo humano (s.n., in the 17th century), by Michelangelo Buonarroti, Mario Cartaro, Francesco Brizio, Luca Ciamberlano, and Agostino Carracci (page images at HathiTrust)
• Verdadeiros Principios do desenho ; conforme o Character pas paixens (Vendese nas lojas da Impressaó Regia e nas de seos commissarios, in the 1770s), by Sébastien Le Clerc and Charles Le Brun (page images at HathiTrust)
• Principles of design (R.H. Laurie, 1824), by Sébastien Le Clerc (page images at HathiTrust)
• Principles of design (s.n., in the 18th century), by Sébastien Le Clerc (page images at HathiTrust)

• Examen des Oeuvres du Sr. Desargues (in French; Paris: M. et I. Henault, 1644), by Jacques Curabelle (multiple formats at Google)
• Advis Charitables sur les Diverses Oeuvres, et Feuilles Volantes du Sr. Girard Desargues Lyonois (in French; Paris: M. Tavernier, 1642) (PDF at e-rara.ch)
• Traité de perspective a l'usage des artistes : où l'on démontre géométriquement toutes les pratiques de cette science, & où l'on enseigne, selon la méthode de M. le Clerc, à mettre toutes sortes d'objets en perspective, leur reverbération dans l'eau, & leurs ombres, tant au soleil qu'au flambeau (Chez Charles-Antoine Jombert, libraire du roi pour l'artillerie & le génie ..., 1750), by Edme-Sébastien Jeaurat, Pierre-Edme Babel, and Pierre Soubeyran (page images at HathiTrust)
• Underweysung der Messung ([s.n.], 1525), by Albrecht Dürer (page images at HathiTrust)
• De re ichnographica : cujus hodierna praxis exponitur, et propriis exemplis pluribus illustratur, inque varias, quae contingere possunt, ejusdem aberrationes, posito quoque calculo, inquiritur. (Prostat apud Leopoldum Kaliwoda ..., 1751), by Giovanni Jacopo de Marinoni, Leopold Johann Kaliwoda, Franz Alois Mayr, and Johann Christoph Winkler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Varia commensuracion para la escultura y arquitectura (En la Imprenta de Miguél Escribano, calle Angosta de San Bernardo, 1773), by Juan de Arfe y Villafañe, Miguel Escribano, and Pedro Enguera (page images at HathiTrust)
• Varia commensuracion para la escultura y arquitectura (Por Don Plácido Barco Lopez ..., 1795), by Juan de Arfe y Villafañe, Plácido Barco López, and Pedro Enguera (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pratica di prospettiva del Cavaliere Lorenzo Sirigatti (Per Girolamo Franceschi sanese, libraio in Firenze, 1596), by Lorenzo Sirigatti, Francesco de Franceschi, and Girolamo de Franceschi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pratiqve de la geometrie svr le papier et svr le terrain (Chez Thomas Jolly ..., 1669), by Sébastien Le Clerc, Jean Cusson, and Thomas Jolly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Varia conmensvracion para la escvltvra y arqvitectvra (Por Francisco Sanz ... :, 1675), by Juan de Arfe y Villafañe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pantographice, seu, Ars delineandi res quaslibet per parallelogrammum lineare seu cauum, mechanicum, mobile (Ex typographia Ludouici Grignani, 1631), by Christoph Scheiner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Instrumentum geometricum novum à celeberrimo viro P. Athanasio Kirchero ante hac inventum (Excudebat Jobus Hertz ... ;, 1660), by Gaspar Schott, Jobst Hertz, Andreas Frölich, Athanasius Kircher, and Witwe und Erben von Johann Gottfried Schönwetter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pratique de la geometrie, sur le papier et sur le terrain : ou par une methode nouvelle & singuliere l'on peut avec facilité & en peu de temps se perfectionner en cette science. (Chez Pierre Mortier..., 1691), by Sébastien Le Clerc (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nova geometria, practica super charta et solo : libellus in quo nova traditur methodus, cujus ope facilis fit ac brevis, ad summa hujusce scientiae fastigia, cursus. (Apud Georgium Gallet, 1692), by Sébastien Le Clerc (page images at HathiTrust)
• A booke of sundry draughtes principaly serving for glasiers: and not impertinent for plasterers, and gardiners: be sides sundry other professions. Whereunto is annexed the manner how to anniel in glas: and also the true forme of the fornace, and the secretes thereof. (London : Printed in Shoolane, at the signe of the Faulcon by Walter Dight, 1615), by Walter Gedde (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Practical perspective, or, Perspective made easie teaching [brace] 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 ... (London : Printed by Joseph Moxon, and sold at his shop ..., 1670), by Joseph Moxon (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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