Vallet, Guillaume (sold)
Guillaume Vallet (December 6, 1632 - January 1, 1704) was a French engraver active in the late 17th century in Paris and Rome. Vallet was the son of the Paris publisher and print seller Jean Vallet (c. 1636). He first studied engraving under Pierre Daret (1604 - 1678), who sometimes work for his father. From 1655 - 1661, Vallet and his childhood friend, engraver Étienne Picart (1632 - 1721), lived in Rome to studying engraving under the Italian masters. He was a member of the L'Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture from 1664. His students include Gaspard Duchange (1662 - 1757), and his sons, Jérôme (1667 - 1722) and Barthélemy Vallet (1674 - c. 1715). Jérôme Vallet inherited his father's position in the L'Académie, when the latter died in 1704. Vallet was buried in the cemetery of St. Benoit in the 5th arrondissement in Paris.
Pardies' star atlas is stylistically one of the most attractive ever published.
Globi coelestis in tabulas planas redacti descriptio auctore R.P. Ignatio Gastone Pardies Societatis Jesu mathematico opus postumum.
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This is a stunning example of Ignace-Gaston Pardies' innovative 1693 celestial maps on 6-part gnomonic projection - here in fine, uncolored loose sheets with an exceptionally strong, crisp impression. Pardies' charts were both revolutionary and influential, emerging as eager scholars and private researchers, aided by ever more sophisticated telescopes, advanced knowledge of astronomy by leaps and bounds. (more details)