‎MANDER Carel van - Cornelis van EVERDINGEN ( provenance) ::‎
‎Het Schilder-Boeck waerin voor eerst de leerlustighe iuegt den grondt der edel vry schilderconst in verscheyden deelen wort voorghedraghen.‎

‎".: #Haerlem, (Haarlem), Paschier van Wesbusch, 1604, in-4°, engraved title + (1)(privilege) + (30) + engraved portrait + (600)(numbered Fol.1-300) + (2)(appendix) + (6)(index) + (1)(errata) + (3)(bl). Bound with: Wtleggingh op den Metamorphosis Pub. Ovidii Nasonis. Alles streckende tot voordering des vromen en eerlijcken borgherlijcken wandels. Seer dienstich den Schilders, Dichters, en Constbeminders...(same author). Engraved title + (1)(priv.) + (14) + (272)(numb.Fol.1-136) + (8)(index) + (2)(bl); contemporary vellum . Vellum soiled, endpapers renewed, portrait mounted, some old marginal annotations, also on the blank leaves. A fine/good copy.. Arntzen/Rainwater H69. First edition of this important book, the starting point of art history in the Netherlands, contains a text on landscape painting, which is the first extensive treatment of this subject in any Western language. The first edition is very rare.."‎

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