Léonard de Vinci : l'artiste & le savant, 1452-1519 : essai de biographie psychologique
Bibliographic record 0588
Author
Séailles, Gabriel
Title
Léonard de Vinci : l'artiste & le savant, 1452-1519 : essai de biographie psychologique
Statement of responsibility
Par Gabriel Séailles, professeur à l'Université de Paris
Place of publication
París
Publisher
Librairie Académique Perrin et Cie
Publication date
1919
Imprint statement
Paris : Librairie Académique Perrin et Cie, 35, quai des Grands-Augustins, 1919
Language
French
Edition
New revised and enlarged edition
Collation
522 p.
Illustrations
Does not contain
Maps
Does not contain
Format
8º
Dimensions
18,5 × 12 cm
Printer's signatures
No observadas en las imágenes aportadas
Paper type
Wove paper
Watermarks
Not visible in the supplied images
Printing condition
Roman type; text in continuous lines; appendices and table of contents at the end
Notes on physical description
Paper lightly yellowed
Binding type
Cloth binding
Materials
Cloth over boards
Colours
Maroon, with gilt fillets and lettering on the spine
Decoration
Plain boards; gilt fillets on the spine; initials «A. G.» stamped in gilt at the foot of the spine
Spine
Smooth spine divided by gilt fillets; «G. SÉAILLES / LÉONARD DE VINCI» in gilt and «A. G.» at the foot
Endpapers
Plain brown paper
Notes
Cloth lightly rubbed at head- and tail-caps and edges; text block firm
Content description
Essay in psychological biography of Leonardo da Vinci by Gabriel Séailles, in a new revised and enlarged edition. It is organised in two parts: the life and works of Leonardo, from his Florentine youth to his final years, and his method and scientific theories drawn from the manuscripts —physics, mechanics, astronomy, geology, natural sciences, philosophy and the applications of science—. It closes with seven appendices and a table of contents.
General notes
Essay in psychological biography of Leonardo da Vinci by Gabriel Séailles (1852–1922), professor at the University of Paris, in a new revised and enlarged edition (Perrin et Cie, Paris, 1919). The first edition, illustrated, is of 1892. Cloth binding with the initials «A. G.» of Alfred Gallart at the foot of the spine. From his library.
Main subject
History of art
Subsubjects
Leonardo da Vinci; Italian Renaissance; biography; history of science; philosophy
Keywords
Séailles; Leonardo da Vinci; Perrin; psychological biography; art; science; Renaissance
Shelfmark
0588
Condition
Good; text block firm and complete; cloth lightly rubbed at caps and edges
Provenance
Library of Alfred Gallart i Genis
Ownership marks
Initials "A. G." (Alfred Gallart) gilt-stamped at the foot of the spine
Manuscript annotations
Not identified
Dedications
Not identified
Stamps
Not identified
Restorations
Not identified