‎Montaiglon, Anatole de‎
‎Descriptions de l'académie royale de peinture et de sculpture‎

‎Les Plans et les Descriptions de deux des plus belles maisons de campagne de Pline 1e Consul. Avec des remarques sur tous ses bâtimens, et une dissertations touchant l'architecture antique & l'architecture gothique. (Bound with) Conférences de l'Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture.‎

‎".: 16. Amsterdam, Estienne Roger, 1706, in-8°, 112 + 8 nn pp, index, 2 ill., 4 folding plans, title page in red and black, leather, gilt and raised spine, speckled edges, several conemporary handwritten ex-libris on the first fly-leaf. Bound with; id., Conférences de l'Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, Amsterdam, Estienne Roger, 1706, 205 pp. Bound with; Catalogue des Livres de Musique nouvellement imprimez à Amsterdam chez Estienne Roger...22 pp. Contemporary full calf, raised gilt back with title label, sprinkled edges, spine and some worming at the lower cover of the binding expertly restored, one of the folding plates with a tear, but on the whole a fine/good copy. The author (1619 - 1695), an architect, was historiographer to the French King. The second book on the Academy was first published in Paris in 1669. It is famous for being the first account of a school for painting where for the first time in western art live models were used. The early 18th-century music catalogue printed at the end of these lectures is very remarkable because it is so extensive. It mentions approx. 360 music publications."‎