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A popular practical treatise on painting, varnishing, and gilding, including a part on Japanese and Chinese lacquer

WATIN, Jean Felix. L'Art du peintre, doreur, vernisseur, ouvrage utile aux artistes & aux amateurs qui veulent entreprendre de peindre, dorer & vernir toutes fortes de sujets et batimens, meubles, bijoux, equipages, &c. in-8o de plus de 400 pages en trois parties. Quatrieme édition. Revue, corrigée & augmentée.
Paris, [printed by l'imprimerie de la Veuve Herissant] for the author, 1785. 8vo. With some woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary marbled calf. XXXII, 380, [3], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 950
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The travel adventures of a famous book and art collector

WILLIGEN, Adriaan van der. Aanteekeningen op eene reize van Parijs naar Napels, door het Tirolsche en van daar door Zwitserland en langs den Rhijn terug naar Holland.
Haarlem, Adriaan Loosjes, (back of half-title parts 2-4: Utrecht, G. Post), 1811-1813. 4 parts in 2 volumes. Large 8vo. With an engraved title-page to the first part (with a stipple-engraved medallion portrait of the author) and 13 engraved plates by J. P. Visscher Bender. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spines. VIII, 269, [1]; IV, 292; VIII, 322; "VIII"[=6], 405, [3] pp. Full description
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