Live auction - Lot 794
[Painting - Drawing]
3 works.
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1. Nieuwen verlichter der konst-schilders, vernissers, vergulders en marmelaers, en alle andere liefhebbers dezer lofbaere konsten inhoudende IX. hoofdstukken [...]. Ghent, Ph. Gimblet & brothers, 1777. 2 parts in 1 vol., 8vo: [6]-263-[9]-16, [6]-419-[12-1 bl.] pp. (pp. 113-146 missing, some browning and soiling). Contemp. mottled half calf, marbled paper on covers (lower upper corner def.), flat spine (rubbed), red leather title label. Interesting work with chapters on pigments, varnish, gilding, miniature, etc. Ill. with 2 front. by J.L. Wauters and 3 (of 4) full-page plates. - 2. Bosse, A. - Traité des manières de graver en taille-douce sur l'airain par le moyen des eaux fortes et des vernix durs et mols [...]. Paris, s.n., 1645. 8vo: [3 engr. pp.]-72 pp. (title, the two pp. after "Aux amateurs de cet art" and pp. 73-75 missing, some soiling on the margins). Contemp. sheep (rubbed), spine with 5 raised bands (rubbed). Ill. with a front., an engr. title, an engr. page "Aux amateurs de cet art" and 18 engr. full-page pl. - 3. Bie, C. de - Het gulden cabinet vande edele vry schilder-const ontsloten door den lanck ghewenschten vrede tusschen de twee machtighe croonen van Spaignen en Vranckryck [...]. [Antw., J. Meyssens, 1661] (in fine: "Ghedruckt t'Antwerpen by" Juliaen van Montfort, 1662). 4to: 585-[2-1 bl.] pp. (engr. title and pp. 371-372 missing, some browning and soiling, portrait p. 505 pasted on). Contemp. calf, blindstamped borders on covers (corners bumped and rubbed), spine with 5 raised bands (joints splitting, head and tail def.). First edition of this compilation of ca. 280 painters, architects, sculptors and engravers by Cornelis de Bie (1627-1717), son of the painter Adriaan de Bie. Ill. with 4 (of 5) allegorical representations of the city of Rome and 95 (on 97) full-page portraits including that of the author and of patron Antoon van Leyen.