Descamps and D'Argenville — Vie Des Peintres Flamands Et Hollandais

Marseille, Jules Barile, 1842. Leather. Three volumes of the French work Vie des Peintres Flamands et Hollandais, with illustrations. The first three of five volumes of Vie des Peintres Flamands et Hollandais. In the original French. These volumes explore the life of Flemish and Dutch painters and also Italian and French painters written by Descamp and D'Argenville. Some of the painters which are discussed in these volumes are Rembrandt, Charles de Moor, Philippe Tideman and Jean Brandenberg. Each volume has a frontispiece. With fifty-five plates to volume one. With sixty-six to volume two and thirty-nine to volume three.Collated, complete.With a bookplate to the front pastedown of all volumes for Guille-Alles Library. In half calf with marbled boards. Externally, a little worn with library numbers to the spines. Rubbing to the extremities, spine and joints. Bumping to the head and tails of the spine. Some splitting to the Joints of volumes one and three. With a bookplate to the front pastedown of all volumes for Guille-Alles Library. With library stamps to the title pages and reverse of the frontispieces. Internally, firmly bound with bright pages with scattered spots, especially to volume two. Good Only . Ill.: Not Stated. Good Only .