Bossuit, F. van; B. Graet; M. Pool
[Antique book with prints, 1727, complete] Cabinet de l’art de schulpture par le fameux sculpteur Francis van Bossuit exécuté en yvoire ou ébauché en terre gravées d’après les desseins de Barent Graat / Mattys Pool. 1727
On title page: “Cabinet de l’art de schulpture par le fameux sculpteur Francis van Bossuit exécuté en yvoire ou ébauché en terre gravées d’après les desseins de Barent Graat door Mattys Pool // STATUES OR ART’S CABINET Containing the Ivory work’s of that famous Statuary FRANCIS VAN BOSSUIT and Curiously Ingraven in Copper According to the draught of BARENT GRAAT by MATHEW POOL’ .
4°, 103 gravures (waaronder 2 portretten) en een gegraveerde opdracht, op 70 bladen. Half leer. Goed exemplaar.
2 decorated engraved title-pages, engraved dedication page [A], portrait of van Bossuit [3] followed by two pages (one in Dutch and one in Eglish) of engraved text with the biography of the sculptor [5]; portrait of Barent Graat [6] followed by two pages (in Dutch and in Eglish) of engraved text with the biography of the painter[8]; plates IX-CIII [9-103] are all in great condition. Wide margins. Good quality engravings on thick paper and one-side printed only. The whole book, including the text, is drawn from plates. Rare complete first and only edition from 1727.
Half leather with text printed in gold; countergard page attached but loose.
Inscribed in pen and black ink within the cover: ‘F. (?) l.(?) Mesterman’.
SKU: 42453
€ 1.962,00 (€ 1.800,00 ex. btw)