78/2532 [Artists' manuals]. Bie, C. de. Het Gulden Cabinet vande edele vry Schilder-Const Ontsloten door den lanck ghewenschten Vrede tusschen de twee machtighe Croonen van Spaignien en Vranckryck, Waer-inne begrepen is den onsterffelijcken loff vande vermaerste Constminnende Geesten ende Schilders Van dese Eeuw, hier inne meest naer het leven af-gebeldt, verciert met veel vermakelijcke Rijmen ende Spreucken. Antw., J. Meyssens, 1661 [=1662], 585,(2)p., 3 parts in 1 vol., engr. allegorical frontisp., 97 full-p. portraits, engraved by I. MEYSSENS (mostly) and L. VORSTERMANS, W. HOLLAR and P. DE JODE, 5 identical allegorical plates (the City of Rome), contemp. sprinkled calf w. gilt spine and burgundy mor. letterpiece, 4to.

- A fine copy with the following small defects: 2 restored spots in blank margin of portrait of Cornelis de Bie; a tiny hole in O2, P1 and BBB3; some annots. in contemp. pen in index. Top end of upper joint professionally restored. Fine copy.

= Bibl. Belgica I, B188; Arntzen/ Rainwater H55. The first edition of this early source for 17th cent. Dutch and Flemish painters, sculptors, architects, engravers, listing about 400 artists.