Catalogue De Tableaux Rares Et Curieux Dessins Estampes Livres Et Ustensiles De Peintures

by Charles Joseph Francois Spruyt

$750 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

6 of 7 engraved plates. 1 p.l., 37 pp. 8vo, late 19th-cent. marbled boards spine rubbed , leather lettering-piece perished. Ghent: 1815 . A rare and early illustrated auction catalogue, selling off the stock and studio contents of the Ghent painter and dealer Spruyt 1769-1851 , who emigrated to Italy; we find two copies of the catalogue in North American libraries. Catalogues from the 18th and early 19th centuries were hardly ever illustrated,

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