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MONIER (P.): History of the arts related to drawing, divided in three books where it is treated of its origin, its progress, its fall and its recovery...Paris, Giffart, 1698. In-12 contemporary brown calf, spine ribbed and decorated (qq very slight defects). A beautiful engraved frontispiece, headbands. First edition. A good copy.

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MONIER (P.): History of the arts related to drawing, divided in three books where it is treated of its origin, its progress, its fall and its recovery...Paris, Giffart, 1698. In-12 contemporary brown calf, spine ribbed and decorated (qq very slight defects). A beautiful engraved frontispiece, headbands. First edition. A good copy.

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