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1166 - LENS, André Le costume ou Essai sur les habillements et les usages de plusieurs peuples de l'Antiquité, prouvé par les monuments. Liège at the expenses of the author, J. F. Bassompierre 1776 4to; 51 pl. (text n.c.). 19th-c. quarter marbled sheep, marbled paper boards, spine with raised bands (joints sl. rubbed, lower corners bumped). Uncut copy with broad margins. First edition of this model book for artists by the famous painter and neoclassicist A.C. Lens (Antwerp 1739-1822). 51 plates engr. by P. Martenasie, depicting 160 models. Ref. Conlon 76:1191 (= NUC). - De Theux 649. - Colas 1828 (= Lipperheide 105). - Vinet 1812. - Brunet III:980. - Dict. des peintres belges, p. 636. Prov. Philippe Kervyn de Volkaersbeke (1815-1881), historian and politician (arm. bookpl).
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LENS, André Le costume ou Essai sur les habillements et les usages de plusieurs peuples de l'Antiquité, prouvé par les monuments. Liège at the expenses of the author, J. F. Bassompierre 1776 4to; 51 pl. (text n.c.). 19th-c. quarter marbled sheep, marbled paper boards, spine with raised bands (joints sl. rubbed, lower corners bumped). Uncut copy with broad margins. First edition of this model book for artists by the famous painter and neoclassicist A.C. Lens (Antwerp 1739-1822). 51 plates engr. by P. Martenasie, depicting 160 models. Ref. Conlon 76:1191 (= NUC). - De Theux 649. - Colas 1828 (= Lipperheide 105). - Vinet 1812. - Brunet III:980. - Dict. des peintres belges, p. 636. Prov. Philippe Kervyn de Volkaersbeke (1815-1881), historian and politician (arm. bookpl).
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