[Rarebooks] FS: 1699 French Art in our new Bookin'! issue

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

 From the new issue of BOOKIN'!
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CABINET des Singularitez d'Architecture, Peinture, Sculpture, et 
Graveur, ou introduction a la connoissance des plus beaux Arts, figures 
sous les Tableaux, les Statues, & les Estampes, by Florent de Comte.

Paris; Estienne Picart & Nicholas le Clerc: 1699.

DISCUSSION: Two additional volumes were published, one in 1700 and one 
in 1702, but this first volume is complete in itself, covering 
architecture, statues and prints, the literature of prints, architect & 
engraver Jean Marot and his son, prints in the Royal collection, painter 
Antoine Francois van der Meulen, artistic collections at Notre-Dame, the 
collection of Prince Léopold Guillaume, works of Rubens and van Dyke, 
and works of portrait painter Robert Nanteuil. Florent le Comte (1655– 
1712), was a French writer and engraver, and this book remains an 
important source for information on the art world of the day.

DESCRIPTION: Hardcover. 4"x6.5", (xx) + xlviii) + 188; 220+(v) pages, 
with three woodcut plates of artists' monograms and several woodcut 
headpieces. Full period polished calf with typical French period gilt 
spine stamping. Covers worn ands splitting along the spine.Scattered 
internal soil and light spotting. Lacking the engraved frontispiece. 
[40107]

PRICE: $125-

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See this & more in the new issue of BOOKIN'!
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