In-folio (35 x 24 cm), (45) ff. brochés sous couverture de papier à la cuve moderne (mouillure en marge inférieure).
45 gravures en beau tirage par Bartoli (Pérouse 1635 - Rome 1700), à toutes marges. * Brulliot II, 2330 ; Bénézit, I, 808.* Voir photographie(s) / See picture(s). * Membre du SLAM et de la LILA / ILAB Member. La librairie est ouverte du lundi au vendredi de 14h à 19h. Merci de nous prévenir avant de passer,certains de nos livres étant entreposés dans une réserve.
BARTOLI Pietro Santo - Giovanni Pietro BELLORI - Henri TESTELIN - Johann Jacob von SANDRART (publisher) :
Reference : 30975
" Nürnberg, Johann Jacob von Sandrart, 1692, in-folio, 36,5 x 25 cm, engraved title with large ornamental border + halftitle + 8 pp with three engraved vignettes + 79 numbered engraved plates (many double page) + 20 pp with two engraved vignettes and one engraved drawing in the text (complete). Some occasional light soiling and spotting. Bound in 19th-century half calf with marbled sides and endpapers; later reback with old backstrip laid down, a bit rubbed along edgfes, headcap damaged, otherwise good. With a manuscript note on the first fly-leaf stating that the book was bought at Benjamins, Alter Walle, Hamburg, on Oct. 3 1879, for 19 Mark ; with heraldic ex-libris stamp on fly-leaf. First German edition of these engravings depicting Roman antiquities. The theoretical text on painting by the French Académicien Henri Testelin ( Paris 1616 - The Hague 1695) appears here also for the first time in German and is a translation of ''Sentiments des plus habiles peintres'', published in Paris in 1680. Testelin, being a Calvinist, was excluded from the Academy n 1681 and fled to the Netherlands."