BERNARD PICART, "Recueil de Lions" Amsterdam 1729.
'Recueil de Lions, Dessinez d'après nature par divers Maitres & gravez, Bernhard Picart. Divisé en six livres chacun de six feuilles. A Amsterdam, Chez Bernard Picart, le Romain, à l'Etoile MDCCXXIX', [1729]
Titlepage with a small engraving; 5 textpages; engraved titlepage for the part with pictures and 36p with engravings. 6 series with a total of 42 engravings.
Oblong 4to (ca 20 x 26,5 cm).
Wear. Stained. Occational margin rift. Inner margins damp stained. Binding partley renovated. Exlibris, 20th century. .
42 engravings in 6 series (A-F), on 36 pages.
All engraved by Bernard Picart; after his own scetches (8 pcs, after nature), after Rembrandt (18), after Charles le Brun (6), after Albrecht Dürer (1), after Paulus Potter (1) and unattributed (8).