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WITH 70 RICHLY ENGRAVED PLATES BY PICART (STOSCH, PHILIPP VON, BARON.) Picart, Bernard. Pierres Antiques Gravées sur lesquelles les Graveurs ont mis
WITH 70 RICHLY ENGRAVED PLATES BY PICART (STOSCH, PHILIPP VON, BARON.) Picart, Bernard. Pierres Antiques Gravées sur lesquelles les Graveurs ont mis leurs Noms. 70 richly engraved plates of enlarged gemstone designs; Latin and French titles printed in red and black, numerous head-pieces throughout. Folio, contemporary sheep-backed marbled boards, rubbed. Amsterdam: Bernard Picart, 1724
- Notes: first edition of the beautiful catalogue of Baron von Stosch's collection of engraved gems. The plates are a masterly execution by famous Parisian engraver and bookseller Picart. The text was anonymously written by Francesco Valesio. von Stosch paid considerable attention to the publication of this volume which became "the first publication of gems bearing the supposed signature of artists, as such, and which gave the greatest impetus to the forging of such signatures in the years that followed"--Sinkankas 6379; Cicognara 3216.
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