Lot 955
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L'école de la miniature, dans laquelle on peut aisément apprendre à peindre sans Maitre, ainsi que les secrets de faire les plus belles couleurs; l'or bruni, & l'or en coquille [...]. Nouvelle édition, augmentée.
[BOUTET, Claude]
€ 150 / 200
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Lot description
Brussels, J. Moris, 1759
8vo: vi-283-[13] pp.
Contemp. calf, covers gilt-ruled with a roll-stamp and fillet, gilt orn. spine with raised bands, red edges (head missing, tail def., sl. rubbed).
Later edition (first 1672) of this guidebook on painting and miniatures, often reprinted. With a dictionary at the end. Title in red & black.
Ref. Barbier II:15. - BnF.
Prov. Stamp on title.
Joined: Mensaert, Guillaume-Pierre - Le peintre amateur et curieux [...]. Bruxelles, P. de Bast, 1763. 2 vol., 8vo (front. missing; some foxing, marg. stain in vol. II). Contemp. half sheep (sl. rubbed). Unique edition of a survey works of art in "Brabant et Seigneurie de Malines" (vol. I) and "La Flandre, le Hainaut, Namur, &c." (vol. II). Ref. Conlon 63:1107 (= NUC). - Dict. des peintres belges, 1995, II:734. Prov. Le Roy (stamp). (3 vol.)