Author: PILES Roger de - Joannes VERHOEK ( translator ) :
Title: Beknopt verhaal van het leven der vermaardste Schilders, met Aanmerkingen over hunne Werken... in't Frans beschreven door den Heer de Piles. En nu in't Nederduits vertaalt door J. Verhoek.
Description: .: 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.. .

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