ALBRECHT, Andreas. Instrument zur Architectur damit die fünff Seülen auch aller sorten Stück und Morsser, sowol allerley Bilder und dergleichen Sachen, leicht und recht proportionirt zuu ergrössern oder zuu erkleinern seindt, erfunden.
Nürnberg, (colophon:) printed by Ludwig Lochner, 1622. 4to. With an engraved title-page, showing all components of the newly invented instrument designed to help draftsmen enlarge or reduce drawings, and 9 numbered figures on 5 plates: 4 plates showing the instrument and its use and 1 large folding plate (32.5 x 30.5 cm) with model drawings of the five orders of architectural columns. Further with a woodcut headpiece, 3 woodcut decorated gothic initials (3 series), a woodcut headpiece and a headpiece built up of cast fleurons. Set in fraktur types. Modern nonpareil marbled boards, red morrocco spine-label, by Ateliers Laurenchet (stamp on paste-down) in Paris, established by Henri Laurenchet in 1947. [16] pp. Full description

ARMENINI, Giovanni Battista. De' veri precetti della pittura ... Libi tre. Ne'quali con bell'ordine d'utili, & buoni avertimenti, per chi desidera in essa farsi con prestezza eccellente; si dimostrano i modi principiali del disegnare, & del dipignere, & di fare le pitture, che si conuengono alle conditioni de' luoghi, & delle persone.
Ravenna, printed by Francesco Tebaldini, for Tomaso Pasini in Bologna, 1587. 4to. With Tebaldini's woodcut scrollwork device (with motto "in deo") on the title page, numerous woodcut decorated initials (3 series), woodcut head- and tailpieces, and decorations built up from cast fleurons. With the main text set in an italic type by Robert Granjon. Later vellum. [20], 229, [3] pp. Full description

BARGAGLI, Scipione. Dell' imprese die Scipion Bargagli ... Alla prima parte, la seconda, e la terza nucoamente aggiunte.
Venice, Francesco de Franceschi, 1594. Small 4to (20.5 x 15 cm). With oval engraved device on title-page, full-page engraved portrait of Rudolf II, full-page engraved dedicatory emblem, and 138 engraved oval emblems in text. 19th-century half sheepskin parchment. [24], “573” [=604], [15], [1 blank] pp. Full description

BARLAEUS, Caspar (BAERLE, Kasper van). Medicea hospes, sive descriptio publicae gratulationis, qua serenissimam, Augustissimamque reginam, Mariam de Medicis, excepit senatus populusque Amstelodamensis.
Amsterdam, Joan & Cornelis Blaeu, 1638. Folio (ca. 39.5 x 25 cm). With 17 engraved plates (1 frontispiece, 14 double page, and 2 folding), a woodcut coat-of-arms of the city of Amsterdam on the title-page, two decorated woodcut initials, and a woodcut tailpiece. Contemporary gold-tooled brown morocco, with a laurel wreath in the centre of both boards, set in a double fillet frame. [12], 62, [2 blank] pp. Full description

BASAN, Pierre-François (engraver). Catalogue raisonné des différens objets de curiosites dans les sciences et arts, qui composoient le cabinet de feu Mr. Mariette Controleur général de la Grande Chancellerie de France, honoraire Amateur de l'Academie Rle. de Peinture, et de celle de Florence.
Paris, the author and G. Desprez, 1775. 8vo. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece, an engraved title page, 4 engraved plates (3 full-page, 1 folding), and 1 folding leaf with extensive engraved notes on one of the objects. Further with woodcut head- and tailpieces, and decorated woodcut initials. 19th-century marbled paper over boards. XVI, 418 pp. Full description

BÉCHARD, Émile. L'Égypte et la Nubie. Grand album monumental, historique, architectural...
Paris, André Palmieri & Émile Béchard, 1887. Large folio (45.5 x 63 cm). With 150 collotype photographic plates, all signed, numbered and captioned in the wide margins of each plate. The half title-page and divisional half title-page for the explanation of the plates are printed in red , the typographical title-page shows a small vignette of an Egyptian mask. Loose leaves. 23, [1 blank], [3 (numbered [175]-177)], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank] pp. and 150 plates. Full description

BIE, Cornelis de. Het gulden cabinet vande edele vry schilder-const ontsloten door den lanck ghewenschten vrede tusschen de twee magtighe croonen van Spaignien en Vrancryck, waer-inne begrepen is den onsterffelijcken loff vande vermaerste constminnende geesten ende schilders van dese eeuw, hier inne meest naer hrt leven af-gebeldt, verciert met veel vermakelijcke rijmen ende spreuken.
Antwerpen, Jan Meyssens, 1662 (colophon: Juliaen van Montfort, 1661). 3 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece by Cornelis Meyssens after Abraham van Diepenbeeck, a full-page portrait of the dedicatee Antoine van Leyen by Richard Collin (1661), a full-page portrait of the author by Jan Meyssens after Erasmus Quellinus, and 97 full-page engraved and etched portraits of painters, engravers, architects and sculptors, engraved by Jan Meyssens, Wenceslaus Hollar, and numerous others, after drawings by Anthony van Dyck, Paulus Pontanus, Jan Lievens, etc. 18th-century gold-tooled half sheep. [2], "584" [= 586], [3] pp. Full description

BILDERDIJK, Willem. Redevoering, over de voortreffelykheid der schilderkunst, in derzelver voorwerp beschouwd. ...1794.
[The Hague, B. Scheurleer junior], 1794.
(2). KASTEELE, Reinier Pieter van de. Redevoering tot lof der vaderlandsche schilders en aanspraak.... 1809.
The Hague, P.F. Gosse, [1809]. With an engraved plate with seals of the Academie engraved by C. Lotter.
(3). KASTEELE, Reinier Pieter van de. Redevoering over het aangename en nuttige van de beoefening der teekenkunde. Uitgesproken in de akademiezaal van Pictura. Op den 3 van Bloeimaand 1810.
The Hague, B. Scheurleer junior, 1810. With an engraved plate with seals of the Academie engraved by C. Lotter.
(4). LIMBURG, T. van. Redevoering over het vermogen der schilderkunst ter gelegenheid van het uitdeelen der prijzen... 1811.
The Hague, B. Scheurleer junior, 1811. 8vo. 4 works in 4 volumes. Contemporary decorated paper wrappers. [24], 22, [2]; [16], 43, [3]; [20], 46; [20], 30 pp. Full description

BLOEMAERT, Abraham. Eerste beginselen der teken-kunst, vervattende in haar veelerlei oogen, neusen, monden, ooren, als meede natuurlyke beweegingen van hoofden, troniën, handen, voeten, armen, beenen, enz.
Amsterdam, Reinier & Joachim II Ottens, [ca. 1730]. Folio. With engraved frontispiece self-portrait of Bloemaert engraved by Joachim Ottens, here serving as no. [1] of 140 engraved plates with drawn models of parts of the human body, and human figures and characters in various postures, movements and scenes. Mottled half sheepskin (ca. 1840?). [1] leaf plus plates. Full description

BODE, Wilhelm and Cornelis HOFSTEDE DE GROOT. The complete work of Rembrandt. History, description and heliographic reproduction of all the master's pictures with a study of his life and his art.
Paris, Charles Sedelmeyer, 1897-1906. 8 volumes. Folio. With 622 full-page photogravure plates. Later brown mottled calf, with the title and volume number lettered in gold on the spine, the original cloth front wrappers used as title-pages. [2 blank], [8], 178, [2]; [2 blank], [6], 178, [2]; [2 blank], [6], 202, [2]; [2 blank], [6], 223, [1]; [2 blank], [6], 213, [3]; [2 blank], [6], 206, [3]; [2 blank], [6], 254, [2]; [2 blank], VI, [2], 381, [1], [6 blank] pp. Full description