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Easy rules for taking a likeness by the most practicable principles of geometry and perspective: with various analogous figures. Written in French by Abbé Bonamici, to serve as a supplement to the French encyclopœdia: translated into English by Abbé Adams.
Bonamici, abbé.Date: MDCCXCII. [1792]- Books
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The school of arts; or, an introduction to useful knowledge, being a compilation of real experiments and improvements, in several pleasing branches of science, on the following subjects, viz. Mechanics, Electricity, Pneumatics, Hydrostatics and Hydraulics, Optics, Clock and Watch-Making, and Astronomy. The Miscellaneous Articles contain the most approved Art of Drawing, Etching, Engraving, Mezzotinto Scraping, Aquatinta, Crayon Painting, Gilding on Glass, Pots, &c. Silvering Looking Glasses, &c. Lackering, Varnishing, Soldering, Casting in Plaster, &c. Cements, Glues, Metals for Speculums, with the whole Process of grinding, &c. Staining Wood, A Composition for Ornaments, Objects for the Microscope, &c. &c. &c. &c. The second edition, with very considerable additions. By John Imison.
Imison, John, -1788.Date: [1790?]