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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 armes, et ausi pour tous capitaines & commandeurs, pour par cecy, pouvoir plus facillement enseigner a leurs soldatz inexperimentez, l'entier et parfait maniement dicelles armes […].
Amsterdam, Robert de Baudous, On les vend' ausi a Amsterdam chez Henrij Laurens, 1608 [= imprint date changed in the plate from 1607 to 1608, but according to STCN, in fact not before 1610].
Folio. Three parts in one volume. [5], 42 pl.; [4], 43 pl.; [5], 32 pl.
Collates: π, X, A-B1, 42 ll; A-B1, 43 ll; a-b1, [c]1, 32 ll.
Getty: [14] p., 32, 43, 42 leaves of plates.
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Scarce first German combined edition of Goeree's manuals for painting, drawing and watercolouringWillem 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 Wasser-Farben.
Leipzig, Friedrich Lanckischens Erben, 1744.
3 parts in 1 volume. 8°. [8], 132, [4], 120, [2], 98 pp. With a woodcut vignette on title-page, several woodcut head- and tailpieces.
Modern half calf with marbled sides.
Very rare (WorldCat: 1 copy) first German edition of the collected artists' manuals by the Dutch author Willem Goeree. It combines the manuals by Willem Goeree on oil painting, drawing and watercolouring. These were originally published in Dutch as:
- Verlichtery-konst, in de welcke den rechten grondt, ende volkomen… Read More

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 famous painting manual. Francesco Melzi, Da Vinci's student, compiled the text from his master's notebooks. He titled it Trattato della pittura and is now known as the Codex Urbinas 1270. The manuscript remained unpublished until 1651, when an Italian and a French edition appeared simultaneously at Giacomo Langlois, Paris. This was accompanied with illustrations by Nicolas Poussin, including a reproduction of the Mona Lisa and a portrait of Da Vinci. Most plates depict instructive models to learn the different disciplines of painting. The second French edition… Read More

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 the application and ingredients necessary for its preparation. The plates illustrate the tools needed in the various steps of making the recipe and how they are used. In a combination of information from Asia and his own findings, the author provides many recipes for paint, transparent and coloured varnishes, and colours. Author Filippo Bonanni (1638-1725) was a student of Athanasius Kircher at the Jesuit College at Rome and became a professor of mathematics there. The Jesuits were an important getaway of Asian culture into the West, as is evidenced by the lacquer manual… Read More