BULLART (Isaac). ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND ARTS,... Lot 37

BULLART (Isaac). ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND ARTS, containing the Lives, & Historical Eulogies of Illustrious Men... With their portraits drawn on originals in the natural, & several funeral inscriptions, exactly collected from their tombs. Brussels, printed at the expense of the author and Foppens, 1682. 2 volumes in folio of [26]-421-[2] pages ; [12]-501-[3] pages, brown basane, spine with ornamented nerves (binding of the time). First edition and first printing of the 280 very well engraved portraits (of which 3 are not noted in the tables), partly by N. de Larmessin, according to the best sources including Holbein, du Moustier, Van Dyck,... Remarkable work for which Bullart worked 30 years and which was published by his son. One will find, beside humanists, navigators, scientists and inventors, printers, all the artists classified by schools, Leonardo da Vinci, Magellan, Copernicus, Columbus, A. Paré, Gutenberg,. "A much sought after book because of the portraits it contains" (Brunet, I, 1386). One cover missing, several yellowed quires, including titles. The last leaf of the table of the first volume damaged without missing text, an engraving torn without missing. Stamps on title. Ex libris A. Brolemann.