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The introduction of Asian laquer art to the West Filippo Bonanni (1638-1725). Trattato sopra la vernice detta communemente Cinese […]. Rome, Giogio Placho, [1720]. 8°. 3-16; 143 pp. (lacks first and last blank page). later decorated stiff paper covers with title-label on front and spine. With 4 engraved full-page plates. Rare first edition of the first European treatise on Chinese and Japanese lacquer and varnishing, introducing… Read more about this item

A masterpiece of Dutch Golden Age printmaking Jacques de Gheyn II (1565-1629). Maniement d'armes d'arqvebuses, movsquets, et piqves. En conformité de l'ordre de Monseigneur le Prince Maurice, Prince d'Orange, Comte de Nassau etc. Gouverneur et Capitain General de Geldres, Hollande, Zeelande, Utrecht, Overijssel etc. Representé par figures, par Jaques de Gheijn. Ensemble les enseignemens par escrit, a l'utilite de tous amateurs des… Read more about this item

Leonardo Da Vinci's painting manualLeonardo da Vinci; Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) [ills, after]; Roland Fréart de Chambray (1606-1676) [transl.]; anonymous [edit.]. Traité de la peinture. Paris, Deterville, printed by Crapelet, An IV [1796]. 8°. [VIII], LIX, [1], 333, [1 blank] pp. With 34 plates (some folding) and several woodcut diagrams in text. Later (circa 1900) vellum, new endpapers. Third French edition of Da Vinci's influential and… Read more about this item

Scarce first German combined edition of Goeree's manuals for painting, drawing and watercolouring Willem Goeree (1635-1711). Anweisung zu der Mahler-Kunst, worinnen nebst derselben Fürtrefflichkeit und Nutzen gezeiget wird, was einer zum gründlichen Verstand der Mahler-Kunst wissen, und wie er sich durch Ubung darinnen perfectioniren soll; nebst einem gründlichen Unterricht von der Reiß- und Zeichen- wie auch Illuminir-Kunst, oder dem rechten Gebrauch der… Read more about this item