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DOLCE, Lodovico. Dialogo della pittura. Nel quale si ragiona della dignità di essa pittura, e di tutte le parti necessarie, che a perfetto pittore si acconuengono: con esempi di pittori antichi, & moderni: e nel fine si fa mentione delle virtù e delle opere del divin Titiano.
Venice, Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, 1557. 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, 2 decorated woodcut initials, a woodcut headpiece, and 2 headpieces built-up from typographical ornaments. Slightly later vellum. 60 ll. Full description

DOLCE, Lodovico. Dialogo della pittura. Nel quale si ragiona della dignità di essa pittura, e di tutte le parti necessarie, che a perfetto pittore si acconuengono: con esempi di pittori antichi, & moderni: e nel fine si fa mentione delle virtù e delle opere del divin Titiano.
Venice, Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, 1557. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, 2 decorated woodcut initials, a woodcut headpiece, and 2 headpieces built-up from typographical ornaments. Later half vellum, title in ink on spine. 60 ll. Full description

DOLCE, Lodovico. Dialogo ..., nel quale si ragiona delle qualità, diversità, e proprietà de i colori.
Venice, Giovanni Battista & Melchiorre Sessa and brothers (colophon: 1565). Small 8vo (15 x 10.5 cm). With woodcut scrollwork Pegasus device on title-page, the word "Dilogo" in a woodcut scrollwork frame, 2 woodcut headpieces, 3 woodcut decorated initials (1 with a figure riding a griffon, 1 with a leopard(?)) and 3 fleurons. With the main text set in italic and preliminaries in roman. 18th-century half parchment (recased?). 87, [1] ll. Full description

DONI, Anton Francesco. Disegno ..., partito in piu ragionamenti, ne quali si tratta della scoltura et pittura; de colori, de getti, de modegli, con molte cose appartenenti a quest' arti: & si termina la nobiltà dell' una et dell' altra professione. ...
Venice, Gabriele Giolito de Ferrari, (colophon: February) 1549. Small 8vo (16 x 10 cm). With the imprint in the base of an elaborate woodcut on the title page, with Ferrari's motto, initials and phoenix device, a different woodcut phoenix device on last page, and 21 woodcut pictorial initials (3 series) plus 1 repeat. Italian sheepskin parchment (ca. 1700?). 63, [1] ll. Full description

[DREESING, Harmanus]. [Drop-title:] Notitie van een groote party curieuse kanten, stokgronden en spiegeltralies, als mede Haarlemmer kant, mionetten, pieten, genayde kant, tippen en bandonnen, voor-en achter- werken, langetten, geborduurde schorteldoeken, neusdoeken en dassen, gestikte mans en vrouwe mussen, &c. ... nagelaten by Adriana Smits, wed. van Jan Calenberg. Welke goederen verkogt zullen werden op vrydag, den 15. December 1724. Ten huyze van Harmanus Dreesing in de Keyzers Kroon, in de Kalverstraat ...
Amsterdam, Marten Smets, [1724]. 4to (16.5 x 21 cm). Formerly sewn through 3 holes but never bound. [8] pp. Full description

DUPUY DU GREZ, Bernard. Traité sur la peinture pour en apprendre la teorie, & se perfectionner dans la pratique.
Toulouse, Widow of J. Pech, and A. Pech, 1699. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title-page, 4 full-page engraved allegorical plates after A. Rivatz, the first dated 1694, and 8 engravings showing perspecive, 2 of which are full-page. Further with large flowered and emblematic woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary calf. [20], 396 pp. Full description

DYLIUS, Joannes (compiler). Dagwyzer der geschiedenissen ... Benevens de geboorte, en sterfdagen, van hooge, en laage stands persoonen ...
[Amsterdam, (frontispiece:) 1778]. Narrow 8vo (16.5 x 9.5 cm). Manuscript in brown ink on laid paper, written in Dutch in a neat and clear but minute Latin hand, forming a calendar of historical events from 17 CE to 28 November 1777, with a grey ink and ink-wash allegorical frontispiece title, dated 1778 but signed by the artist "A:C. 1777.", and a title page in 8 styles of plain and decorated Latin and gothic lettering. Contemporary richly gold-tooled red goatskin morocco, the spine with a green morocco label, gold-tooled turn-ins and board edges. Bound by the so-called "Rocaille-and-flower bindery" (Storm van Leeuwen). [8 blank], [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [187], [9 blank] pp. including frontispiece. Full description

EDWARDS, George and Matthias DARLY. A new book of Chinese designs calculated to improve the present taste consisting of figueres, buildings, & furnitur, landskips, birds, beasts, flowers and ornaments, &c.
London, sold by the authors, 1754. Folio. With 76 engraved plates and an engraved title page. 19th-century, half beige leather, title lettered in gold on the spine, marbled paper sides. [4] pp. and an engraved title page and 76 engraved plates. Full description

EEGHEN, P. van and J. Ph van der KELLEN. Het werk van Jan en Caspar Luyken ... met 56 platen. Deel I[-II].
Amsterdam, Frederik Muller & Co., 1905. 2 volumes. With 56 plates. Contemporary half morocco, gold-tooled spine. Full description

EELKEMA, Eelke Jelles and André Léon LARUE (MANSION). Grondig onderrigt in de teeken- en schilderkunst, inzonderheid in miniatuur, ten nutte van jonge kunstoefenaren. Naar het Fransch van Mansion.
Leeuwarden, Lambertus Schierbeek, 1830. 12mo (15.5 x 9 cm). With folding lithographed frontispiece, coloured by hand, showing a palette of colours. Contemporay purple half morocco, gold- and blind-tooled spine. XII (incl. frontispiece), 131, [1 blank] pp. Full description