Live veiling - Lot 745
[Costume - Antiquity]
Le costume ou Essai sur les habillements et les usages de plusieurs peuples de l'antiquité, prouvé par les monuments.
Liège, J.F. Bassompierre, 1776
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100
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Beschrijving lot
4to: xxxii-412 pp. ; 51 pl. (min. marg. damages, min. fox., min. marg. soiling, marg. staining, a few marg. rest.).
Mod. quarter leather, marbled paper on covers, gilt spine with 5 raised bands, leather title-label (a bit worn, corners bumped). Good, uncut and nice copy.
First ed. of this model book for artists by the famous painter and neoclassicist A.C. Lens (Antwerp 1739-1822). 51 ill. engr. by P. Martenasie, depicting 160 models.
Ref. Conlon 76:1191 (= NUC). - De Theux 649. - Colas 1828 (= Lipperheide 105). - Vinet 1812. - Brunet III:980. - Dict. des peintres belges, p. 636.
Prov. Marcel Bertrand (mod. bookpl.). - Xavier Duquenne, 1998 (ms. entry).