2806 - 3510 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- Frontisp. and title loosening. Otherwise a good/ fine copy.
= "The 1708 edition by the Dutch publisher van Dole (...) is considerably larger than the original work. Aside from additional chapters, it includes a new, separate section on pastel painting." (R.G. Kuehni and A. Schwarz, Color Ordered, p.57). Not in Kunst op schrift, Arntzen/ Rainwater and Kat. Orn. Berl.
- First few lvs. and plates sl. foxed; owner's entry on htitle; htitle repaired in upper outer corner; new endpapers. Leather spine dried out, sl. flaking.
= All published. Interesting artists' manual, listing all sorts of practical instructions for young painters and painters who have no access to various types of practical information because they do not live near towns and cities in which the best artists reside. Contains i.a. a list of recipes for 38 different colours of paint. Not in Kunst op schrift.
- First and last few lvs. sl. foxed; sl. agetoned.
= Cf. Kunst op Schrift 196 (ed. 1722). Very rare Antwerp edition.
- Spine splitting. = Rare.
Idem. Grondig onderricht in de teeken- en schilderkunst, inzonderheid in miniatuur. Naar het Fransch van Mansion. Ibid., idem, 1830, XII,131p, fold. handcol. engr. plate, orig. printed limp. boards.
- Lacks backcover; frontcover with paper remnant and soiled; spine splitting.
= Very rare artist manual. I.a. on how to paint pearls.
- First blank appears to have been torn out, but otherwise a fine copy in an attractive binding.
= Kunst op Schrift 1211.
= Kunst op schrift 4-6.
Idem. Natuurlyk en Schilderkonstig Ontwerp der Menschkunde: Leerende niet alleen de Kennis van de Gestalte, Proportie, Schoonheyd, Muskelen, Bewegingen, Actien, Passien, en Welstand der Menschbeelden. Tot de Teykenkunde, Schilderkunde, Beeldhouwery, Bootseer en Giet-Oeffening toepassen; Maar ook hoe sich een Mensch na deselve Regelen, in allerhande Doeningh van Gaan, Staan, Loopen, Torssen, Dragen, Arbeyden, Spreken en andere Gebeerden, Bevallig en Verstandelijk aanstellen zal. Amst., J. Roman, 1753, 3rd ed., (16),435,(28)p., engr. frontisp., 12 (fold.) plates, 23 (nearly all full-p.) ills., contemp. hcalf.
- Sl. foxed throughout; occas. sl. browned. Binding worn, leather spine dried out.
= Kunst op Schrift 420. "Goeree's most important contribution to the theory of proportions" (Bolten p.214).
- A few old stains on frontcover. A fine copy.
= Kunst op Schrift 420. "Goeree's most important contribution to the theory of proportions" (Bolten p.214).
- Occas, sl. foxed. Giltlettering on spine rubbed/ worn off. A good copy.
= Kunst op schrift 401 and 408. Arntzen/ Rainwater H96: "Biographical accounts of Netherlandish painters, a continuation of Houbraken."
- Contemp. owner's entry "Henric Casimir Hoorn" in pen and ink on title-p. (not traced); bookplate on upper pastedown; occas. trifle fingersoiled/ foxed, otherwise a very good copy.
= Rare, complete second edition. The engr. frontisp. w. Latin title. Cf. Orenstein 634E; cf. Kat. Orn. Berlin 4709 and Fowler 155, both listing the Dutch edition published in 1623; cf. Bierens de Haan 2116 (eds. 1640/ 1647) and Kunst op Schrift 254 (ed. Reinier and Josua Ottens, ±1730); Graesse III, p.324 (eds. 1642 and 1643). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LII.
- (Vague) annots. in pencil on title-p. Binding sl. rubbed along extremities. Good/ fine copy.
= The engr. frontisp. w. Latin title and impressum of Reiner & Josua Ottens; the printed title-p. w. addition to the impressum: "Alwaar mede Gedrukt en Verkogt worden alle ander Architectuur Boeken, als ook het nieuwe verbeterde Bosboom." Cf. Orenstein 634E; cf. Kat. Orn. Berlin 4709 and Fowler 155, both listing the Dutch edition published in 1623; cf. Bierens de Haan 2116 (eds. 1640/ 1647) and Kunst op Schrift 254 (ed. Reinier and Josua Ottens, ±1730); Graesse III, p.324 (eds. 1642 and 1643). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LVII.
- Spine-ends dam.; worn along extremities and covers (dust)soiled.
= Arntzen/ Rainwater H100 (listing the first Dutch edition Amst., 1707); Graesse IV, p.80; Brunet III, 775.
- Without the suppl. essay by J.A. Segner; partly vaguely waterst. in upper margin. Binding sl. stained and rubbed.
= Kunst op Schrift 619; Bierens de Haan 2609 (1st ed., 1701).
- Upper joint splitting; spine sl. defective. = Rare.
- Rebound rather tightly w. sl. cramped inner margins; a few plates misbound but complete; occas. sl. foxed and yellowed.
= Kunst op schrift 586; Arntzen/ Rainwater H69 (eds. 1604 and 1618); Chamberlin 2018; Bibl. Belg. M105; Van Someren I,212.
- Lacks title-p. to the first part; first text leaf heavily browned/ stained.
= Part 3 in second edition. Kunst op schrift 862-863 (parts 2-3). Rare and comprehensive book of secrets with hundreds of recipes, 3 indices.
- Browned. Spine-ends sl. dam.; corners showing.
= Rare translation of Piles' Cours de peinture par principes (1708). At the end of the first part Piles' famous classification of painters according to composition, design, colour, and expression. Arntzen/ Rainwater H114; Kunst op schrift 447.
- Browned/ foxed in various degrees. Top of spine worn.
= Rare translation of Piles' Cours de peinture par principes (1708). At the end of the first part Piles' famous classification of painters according to composition, design, colour, and expression. Arntzen/ Rainwater H114; Kunst op schrift 447.
- Contents fine. Spine splitting . = Kunst op schrift 1159. First and only edition.
- Occas. sl. foxed; final few leaves dampstained in lower margin. Inkstain on backcover; both covers sl. foxed/ faded.
= Mainly drawing examples of landscapes (partly identified in the print), seascapes, farmhouses and details of outdoor scenes.
- All vols. spine-ends dam.
= LARGE PAPER COPY. Including the often lacking fourth vol. published in 1769. Kunst op schrift 243-245; Arntzen/ Rainwater H129.


































