BARTOLI Pietro Santo - Giovanni Pietro BELLORI - Henri TESTELIN - Johann Jacob von SANDRART (publisher) : - Übrig gebliebene Merckzeichen von den Römischen Antiquitäten und der Bild-hauer-Kunst der Alten in Bassorelievo nach Marmorsteinern Originalien so zu Rom... beigefüget Anmerckungen der fürtreflichsten Mahlern unserer Zeit ...von Henrico Testelino...

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. .