- Frontisp. waterst., creased and sm. portion torn from upper edge; a few lvs. loose(ning); pastedowns detached.

= Kunst op Schrift 99.

- First lvs. (incl. title) badly soiled/ stained and w. restored margins; title-p. bound after preface; partly sl. waterst.

= The first Dutch edition of this classic by the French engraver and draughtsman Sébastien Le Clerc (1637-1714). The plates depicting the orders, their application and plates of doors, windows, niches, balustrades etc.

- Lacks 1 of 2 engr. titles and 1 plate; endpapers and some lvs. trifle foxed/ worn; ±10 lvs. w. marginal waterst. Vellum trifle soiled; sm. hole in spine.

= Early editions are very rare. Fowler 217; cf. Kat. Orn. Berlin 2595 (on the 1647 French ed.); Bierens de Haan 3389 (1682 French ed., publ. by Wetstein at Amsterdam).

- Without vol. 1 and 2. Partly waterstained (incl. plates); some plates creased and/ or duststained in blank margin. Bindings worn and sl. stained; spine-ends (of vol.3) and corners sl. dam.

= Kat. Orn. Berl. 2012; British Architect Library 2482: "the most substantial treatise of civil architecture by a German writer". Contains besides groundplans and ills. of architectural details many fine plates of i.a. mansions, opera houses, palaces and churches.

- Lacks the plan of Versailles and 33 plates; occas. waterst. and fingersoiled; 2 plates blank margins cut short.

= Cf. Cicognara 3559; Kat. Orn. Berl. 4212.

- Fine copy. = Gay/ Lemonnyer III, p.1364f: "Excellent ouvrage".

- Sl. dogeared copy. = First publ. 1741.

- Occas. sl. yellowed; old owner's entry on title-p. and extensive annot. by the same on recto of final free endpaper. Fine copy.

= Adams F-443.

- Fine copy. = Rare edition (Adams F-638 only lists the later ed. of Venice, 1567).

- Title-p. sl. foxed in upper outer corner; occas. contemp. annots. in pen and ink in margins; otherwise contents clean and fine. Vellum soiled/ stained and sl. wormholed.

= Adams F638; BM Italian STC p.270. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXIII.

- Num. contemp. annots. in margin; waterstained (partly slightly) almost throughout; first three leaves sl. waterstained in upper margin.

= Rare edition of this compendium on Aristotle's natural philosophy. It ends with a short chapter titled: De Mineralibus Plantis et animalibus.

- Old owner's entry on title-p. and on verso of first free endpaper.

= A response (in verse) to the discussion following Descartes' statement on the "animal/ machine" theory about 80 years earlier.

- Occas. sl. foxed. Spine-ends and joints sl. worn; corners rubbed.

= With contemp. owner's entry of "Grillo Pharmacien" on title-p. Rare work, also attributed to Diderot.

- FInal engravings sl. foxed, otherwise very fine.

= Rare complete copy of the enlarged edition of this important drawing book, edited by B. Picart, who (re)arranged the order of the prints as he states in the Bericht der uytgeevers to the book: "Dat Werk is en behoort volstrektelyk te dienen tot een Voorschrift en een Model aan alle die geenen, welke geneygt zyn in de Tekenkonst en in de Graveerkunde te vorderen; als van 's Gelyken overwaardig te werden bewaart in de Konstkabinetten en onder de Papierkonst-verzamelingen aller Konst-beminnaars, Uyt welken hoofde wy dit Tekenboek, zo ter liefde van Abraham Bloemaerts geheugen, als tot meerder licht der Konstlievende leerlingen, in een betere Order trapsgewyze hebben verschikt". "Bolten p.253: "The leading example of the master model in the Netherlands is the drawing book by Abraham Bloemaert. (...) Bloemaert's drawing examples are not derived from those of other authors. They represent the fruits of a life of industrious study in academies and after nature (...)." SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXV.

- Occas. sl. age-toned/ yellowed and/ or sl. foxed. Otherwise fine.

= The rare first edition of Abraham Bloemaert's influential Tekenboek, rarely found complete. It was preceded by a variant also titled Artis Apellae, which was privately issued by Bloemaert's sons between 1650 and 1656, but with a smaller number of prints (between 100-120 prints). Only three copies of that work are known (all in musea). Bolten p.253: "The leading example of the master model in the Netherlands is the drawing book by Abraham Bloemaert. (...) Bloemaert's drawing examples are not derived from those of other authors. They represent the fruits of a life of industrious study in academies and after nature (...)." SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXV.

- Generally fingersoiled and occas. sl. stained; ad 1: lacks 5 plates and frontisp.; one plate loose; ad 2: lacks 5 plates and frontisp. and lacks the final 10 pages; endpapers and blanks loosening. Binding soiled. Sold w.a.f.

= Bierens de Haan 522 (ed. 1694). The famous universal method of perspective by Abraham Bosse (1602-1676). Cat. Spelman, The complete artist 186 (other ed.): "Bosse was the first professor of perspective at the Academie Royale and "one of the last great defenders of geometrically correct perspective construction". His unacknowledged appropriation of his fellow academician Desargue's work, in attempting to formulate a complete theory of painting based upon the principles of scientific perspective, led to his dismissal from the Academie." The first Dutch edition of this influential work.

- First and last few lvs. sl. foxed; sl. agetoned.

= Cf. Kunst op Schrift 196 (ed. 1722). Very rare Antwerp edition.

- Lacks backcover; frontcover with paper remnant and soiled; spine splitting.

= Very rare artist manual. I.a. on how to paint pearls.

- Partly wormholed (worse at the beginning, also affecting frontisp.); sl. yellowed and stained; lacks lower pastedown. Vellum sl. soiled.

= Kunst op Schrift 65/ 66/ not in Kunst op Schrift.

- One plate lacks part. Poor bindings, spines dam.

= Chamberlin 2008: "As valuable for the 17th century in the Low Countries as Van Mander is for the 16th"; Arntzen/ Rainwater H97: "Important source".