Pictura Loquens.
Amsterdam, Adriaan Schoonebeek 1695.
8vo. Etched frontis., [xiv], 240, [16]p. SIXTY-TWO FULL-PAGE ETCHINGS BY ADRIAAN SCHOONEBEEK including the frontispiece and the dedication with a bust portrait of the dedicatee (with and an emblem and symbols of his trade).
18TH-CENTURY GILT GREEN MOROCCO, triple-rule outer borders, floral and geometric tools in spine compartments, gilt-lettered title, all edges gilt (corners bumped, spine faded).
Only Edition. This gallery of historical and mythological pictures pairs illustrations with quotations from classical literature and the editor’s interpretation of these texts. A student and collaborator of Romeyn de Hooghe, Schoonebeek became the art instructor of Peter the Great. Ownership inscription of Roxburghe member Henry Drury (1778-1841; Catalogue (1827) 3914); bookplate of the great connoisseur Robert Samuel Turner (1818-87; Catalogue (1878) 242).
¶Universal Catalogue of Books on Art II: 1895; Brunet V: 412 “recherché à cause des gravures”; Wurzbach, Niederländisches Kunstlerlexicon II: 582,15.
Price: $2,600.00