Amsterdam, by Balthasar Lakeman, 1725, in-8°, engraved frontispiece, title printed in red and black, (28) nn pp + 531 pp + (4)nn pp, Very fine copy in contemporary vellum boards, early manuscript title on spine. Text in Dutch ( Boek in het Nederlands). First Dutch edition of de Piles' Abrégée de la vie des peintres which appeared in 1699, with a life of the author, technical explanations and short biographies of a great many painters..