Live auction - Lot 502
[Painting - Perspective]
Uitvoerig onderwys in de perspectiva, of doorzichtkunde.
Amsterdam, J.C. Sepp, 1765
€ 150 / 200
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Lot description
8vo: [16-xvi]-127-[1] pp. (age-toned, min. marg. staining & soiling).
Mod. half leather, gilt spine on 6 raised bands (sl. rubbed). Good copy.
First edition of this schoolbook for painters and other artists, on the study of applied perspective by the Amsterdam engraver and architectural historian C.J. Philips (1732-1789). Ill. with sm. engr. vign. and 60 engr. folding plates, with the name of Philips in the 1st pl. Title in red and black. Ref. Bierens de Haan 3759. - Berlin Kat. 4740. - STCN. Prov. Ownership stamp on first flyleaf, title & French title.