Apr 08, 2021 - Sale 2563

Sale 2563 - Lot 36

Price Realized: $ 2,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
De Bie, Cornelis (1627-1711)
Het Gulden Cabinet.

Antwerp: [J. van Montfort for] Jan Meyssens, 1661 [colophon: 1662].

First edition, quarto, with engraved title, added portrait of De Bie dated 1708 mounted and inserted, illustrated with ninety-seven full-page engravings of artists, and an engraving of a personification of the city of Rome repeated five times; bound in full contemporary Dutch parchment over boards, tooled in blind, neatly titled on spine; ex libris Frederik Verachter (1791-1870), archivist of the Antwerp city library, with pages of notes in his hand, signature to title, and inserted leaf with extra biographical information about one of the 280 artists of the Low Countries profiled and illustrated in this volume; contents good; ex libris Gustave Charles Antoine Marie Van Havre, with his armorial bookplate inside the front board, 9 x 7 1/4 in.

Funck 278.