ANTIQUE Art/Painting/Drawing Instruction PLATES 1678

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ANTIQUE Art/Painting/Drawing Instruction PLATES 1678 EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE, TREATISE TITLED "POLYGRAPHICE: OR THE ARTS OF DRAWING, ENGRAVING, ETCHING, LIMNING, PAINTING, VARNISHING, GILDING, COLOURING, DYING BEAUTIFYING AND PERFUMING IN FOUR BOOKS " BY NOTED AUTHOR AND PHYSICIAN WILLIAM SALMON. This early treatise was published in London by Robert White for John Crump in 1678. Polygraphice was first published in 1672. It is a compendium of general information but the first section is devoted to the art of painting. Interesting treatise contains many historic plates instructing the reader how to draw the charactoristics of humans as well as scenery. He dwells on the necessity that the artist should be aware of anatomy, in particular the muscles, and the body's correct proportions. He refers to classic portraits, but also more common subjects; Just one of many quotes Salmon writes: "If you be to draw a labouring man, you must without any regard to the season, represent him with raised limbs, and strong muscles swelling and standing forth, sweating and burning, especially in such as carry burthens, draw great weights, or use vehement leaping, walking, jesting with weapons, fencing and such like exercises." William Salmon (1644-1713) Author of several books which display a career of varied interests: a practising physician as his "Family-dictionary" includes medicinal cures as well as culinary recipes, An English painter and author of "Polygraphice" (London, 1672) which gives instruction of the different categories of painting, and as a quack-doctor in a book by Geshwind M. titled "William Salmon, quack-doctor and writer of seventeenth century London." Author of "Pharmacopoeia Londinensis" (the New London Dispensatory) and "Palladio Londinensis", an architecture book. In " Ars chirurgica",1699 he is described as "William Salmon, after travelling in New England and the West Indies, set up as an irregular outside St. Bartholomew's Hospital." He wrote many astrological and semi-popular medical works." He said in Pharmacopoeia Londinensis. Or, the New London Dispensatory, (1696) , the Lapis Vegetabilis (The Vegetable Stone). "Rx. Take a dry plant, digest it with its own distilled water: draw from it the flegm, spirit, and oil; from the feces extract a salt (by calcination) with the flegm: then draw a tincture from the same kind of herb with the spirit; impregnate the salt with the tincture, and add as much of the oil as the salt so impregnated can swallow up, then coagulate like a stone.... It has all the virtues of the herbs exalted from whence it is extracted." He also published a series of books, "The London almanack for the year of our Lord 1691 - 1700. [/] REMARKABLY SCARCE BOOK REMAINS IN FAIR/GOOD CONDITION. Beautiful Full leather binding with ornant spine and gilt lettering. 407p + table of contents. Pages show scattered foxing with some coloration-see pictures. Amazingly 15 of 17? plates are present (I have scanned them all). All title pages and plates have been rebacked with its original content (for future preservation?). First page starts with the engraved title. There are some random page repairs.Page 89 is missing the lower quarter corner of the page. Hinges to the covers are sound internally and externally. Bindings contain moderate wear with some joint wear to upper spine (overall holds together very well). Even with its flaws this is a very rare and hard to find book on early art. Each volume measures aprox. 9.5 by 6.5 by 1.25 inches thick. NEVER A RESERVE AND (VERY) LOW OPENING BID AS ALWAYS. Please review our feedback and . Buyer pays calculated cost USPS Media Mail within USA and calculated cost internationally . Feel free to contact me if you would like shipping insurance within the USA. Insurance not offered on international parcels. Due to PayPals buyer protection policy, I can only ship USPS Priority for International buyers. Connecticut residents please add 6% sales tax or dealers include your tax resale ... read more

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