[Lepicié François-Bernard]. - Vie des premiers-peintres du Roi depuis M. le Brun, jusqu'à présent. 2 volumes in-8 bound in one volume in full calf with smooth spine, decorated with a semis of flowers, title-piece (red) - headbands faded, spotted spines - lxxx, 178 pp; [3 ff.], 143 pp, [3 ff.] First edition. A handwritten note in ink on the flyleaf reads "Sold 7.20 , sale of the library of Me de Pompadourn) n° 669 of the catalogue".
Attached is a work written in German Gothic by Willhelm Goerce, on the practice and execution of painting. Translated from Dutch by Johann Langen. Hamburg, Johannes Naumanns and Georg Wolffens, 1677. In-12, three parts bound in full vellum with small covers - [6 ff.], 165 pp. ; [2 ff.], 152 pp. ; [6 ff.], 130 pp. frontispiece engraved by Wichman and coloured at the time, an in-t drawing, a full-page in-t plate (13 figures showing how to draw a face) and a half-page in-t drawing (example of 2 faces with values given by the engraver's burin)
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