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by Girard Desargues

$45,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

Paris: Antoine Dezallier, 1679. First and only edition, incredibly rare, of the last surviving contribution published by the brilliant French mathematician Girard Desargues in the notorious ‘perspective wars’ – Desargues was “the greatest perspectivist and projective geometer of his generation” Kemp, The Science of Art, p. 120 . Desargues published his works in very small editions, mostly for his

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