Apr 09, 2015 - Sale 2379

Sale 2379 - Lot 138

Price Realized: $ 219
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
PERNETY, ANTOINE-JOSEPH. Dictionnaire Portatif de Peinture, Sculpture et Gravure; avec un Traité Pratique des Différentes Manières de Peindre. 8 folding woodcut plates chiefly depicting printmaking tools and equipment. xxviii, 565, [5] pages, including half-title. 12mo, 168x105 mm, contemporary mottled sheep gilt, spine chipped at top, cover corners worn through; contents generally clean. Paris: Bauche, 1757

Additional Details

first edition. with: Sculptura Historico-Technica; or, The History and Art of Engraving . . . Fourth Edition. 10 engraved plates; numerous text woodcuts of artists' monograms. xi, [1], 264 pages. 12mo, 173x103 mm, contemporary calf, worn, joints starting, top of spine chipped; contents toned with occasional marginal soiling. Bookplate of Franklin Institute Library on front pastedown, their perforated stamp on title. London: J. Marks, 1770.