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[BUONANNI]

Verhandeling over de vernissen, waar in de wyze opgegeeven wordt, om 'er een toe te stellen, dat 't Chinees vernis volmaakt gelykt: benevens verscheyde andere zaken rakende de schilderkunst, 't vergulden, 't etsen, etc
Leyden
Jacobus Willeke
1742
€700 - €900

8°, 16, 218, [26] pp, 4 gravures b.t., kaftje in gemarmerd papier. Etui met rug in chagrin en met 5 nerven

Good copy. Extr. rare Dutch trsl. of a treatise on Chinese (and Japanese) varnishing and lacquer wares by the Italian Jesuit scholar Buonanni (1638-1725), ""Trattato sopra la vernice detta Cinese"" (Rome 1720). It was soon translated in French (""Traité des vernis"", Paris 1723)