Lotto 2785
[Artists' manuals]. Mander, K. van.
Het Leven der Doorluchtige Nederlandsche en eenige Hoogduitsche Schilders. Ed. J. de Jongh. Amst., S. van Esveldt, 1764, 2 vols., (32),354,(3); (2),271,(59)p., engr. frontisp., portr. of the author and 51 plates (each w. 2 or 3 portraits) by J. LADMIRAL, contemp. unif. full gilt speckled calf, w. richly gilt spine.
- Lotto
- 2785
- Sezione
- OLD and RARE BOOKS
- Stima
- 100 € – 150 €
- Aggiudicato
- 100 €
- Foto
- 3 foto
Condizioni
First vol. leaf *8 skilfully restored in blank section and last few lvs. waterst.; both vols. lvs. partly sl./ trifle browned. Both vols. letterpieces (partly) worn away; extremities of bindings rubbed; upper joints starting/ splitting.
Note
Kunst op schrift 586; Arntzen/ Rainwater H69 (eds. 1604 and 1618); Chamberlin 2018; Bibl. Belg. M105; Van Someren I,212. From the library of Maria van Huerne de Schiervelde de Puyenbeke-De Schietere De Lophem (1764-1804) with her letterpress bookplate on upper pastedowns. She was married to the Belgian merchant, collector and mecenas Aybert Jozef van Huerne de Puyenbeke. And from the library of the Antwerp alderman, historian and bibliophile Jan Baptist Verdussen III (1698-1773), with his bookpate (small oval engraving showing an emblematic scene of 2 storks with the device "Pietas homini tutissima virtus" (also the printer's device of the Verdussen family from Antwerp)) on all 4 pastedowns. His book collection was sold in 1776.