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207 - Mensaert (Guillaume Pierre) Le Peintre Amateur et Curieux, ou Description Générale des Tableaux des plus habiles Maîtres...des Pays-Bas Autrichiens, 2 vol. in 1, first edition, engraved frontispiece, contemporary calf, spine gilt, head of spine and morocco label chipped, Brussels, P. de Bast, 1763 § [Bachaumont (Louis de)] Essai sur la Peinture, la Sculpture, et l'Architecture, first edition, engraved frontispiece, some light spotting, modern calf-backed marbled boards, spine gilt with red roan label, n.p., 1751 § Buchanan (William) Memoirs of Painting, with a Chronological History of the Emportation of Pictures by the Great Masters into England since the French Revolution, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, near contemporary ink inscription to James McDouall on front free endpaper of vol.1 with his armorial bookplate, contemporary calf, spines gilt, roan labels chipped, 1824, the first and last a little rubbed, 8vo (4)
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Mensaert (Guillaume Pierre) Le Peintre Amateur et Curieux, ou Description Générale des Tableaux des plus habiles Maîtres...des Pays-Bas Autrichiens, 2 vol. in 1, first edition, engraved frontispiece, contemporary calf, spine gilt, head of spine and morocco label chipped, Brussels, P. de Bast, 1763 § [Bachaumont (Louis de)] Essai sur la Peinture, la Sculpture, et l'Architecture, first edition, engraved frontispiece, some light spotting, modern calf-backed marbled boards, spine gilt with red roan label, n.p., 1751 § Buchanan (William) Memoirs of Painting, with a Chronological History of the Emportation of Pictures by the Great Masters into England since the French Revolution, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, near contemporary ink inscription to James McDouall on front free endpaper of vol.1 with his armorial bookplate, contemporary calf, spines gilt, roan labels chipped, 1824, the first and last a little rubbed, 8vo (4) *** The last is by a Scottish lawyer turned art dealer and is a key source of the art trade of the time and its transactions.
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