140. [Durer (Albrecht) and others] The excellency of the pen and pencil, exemplifying the uses of them in the most exquisite and mysterious arts of drawing, etching, engraving, limning. Painting in oyl, washing of maps & pictures. Also the way to Cleanse any Old Painting…, engraved folding plate and illustration in the text, some full-page, lacking additional pictorial title, folding plate trimmed at outer edge, just touching image, closely trimmed at head, occasionally just touching running title, some light browning and soiling, occasional spotting, 19th century half calf, rubbed, [Wing E3779], 8vo, Thomas Ratcliff and Thomas Daniel, for Dorman Newman and Richard Jones, 1668.
est. £400 – £600
Rare at auction in any state of completeness. We can trace only 4 copies in total of this and the second edition at auction in the last 36 years.