1832 Architecture 1ed Perspective Charles Davies MATH Pyramids PROVENANCE

1832 Architecture 1^ed  Perspective Charles Davies MATH Pyramids PROVENANCE

Charles Davies was an early 19^th-century American mathematician known for teaching at the Military Academy at West Point. His most important writing was his treatise on perspective, “On Shades and Shadows and Linear Perspective”. This book proved to be an important instructional guide on how to find and illustrated all matters of architecture including:

• Drawing tangential planes
• Shading and shadowing Doric columns
• On the frustum of a cone
• Cylindrical abacuses
• Pillars
• Finding the perspectives of spheres, pyramids, circles, arches, etc.

This 1832 first edition includes 20 folding plates – a must see!

Item number: #27168

Price: $499

DAVIES, Charles

Treatise on shades and shadows and linear perspective.

New York: printed and published by J. & J. Harper, 1832. First edition.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • viii, 9-157
  • 20 folding plates
• Provenance: Handwritten – Cadet B. Chalmers, 1832
  • Possibly Charles B. Chalmers (d. 1841), a cadet at West Point until his graduation in 1834. He was eventually promoted to First Lieutenant in the 1^st Artillery, where he served during the Second Seminole War. It is likely that the numerous sketches and marginalia in this book are also his work.
• Language: English
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
• Size: ~10.25in X 6.5in (26cm x 16.5cm)

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