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2026 RBMS Virtual Showcase

June 23-26, 2026

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Pictura Loquens

Smids, Ludolf

$2,600
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  • Binding: 18TH-CENTURY GILT GREEN MOROCCO, triple-rule outer borders, floral and geometric tools in spine compartments, gilt-lettered titl
  • Publisher: Adriaan Schoonebeek
  • Location: Amsterdam
  • Date: 1695
  • Seller SKU: 10714
Amsterdam: Adriaan Schoonebeek, 1695. 18TH-CENTURY GILT GREEN MOROCCO, triple-rule outer borders, floral and geometric tools in spine compartments, gilt-lettered title, all edges gilt (corners bumped, spine faded).

Only Edition. This gallery of historical and mythological pictures pairs illustrations with quotations from classical literature and the editor’s interpretation of these texts. A student and collaborator of Romeyn de Hooghe, Schoonebeek became the art instructor of Peter the Great. Ownership inscription of Roxburghe member Henry Drury (1778-1841; Catalogue (1827) 3914); bookplate of the great connoisseur Robert Samuel Turner (1818-87; Catalogue (1878) 242).
¶Universal Catalogue of Books on Art II: 1895; Brunet V: 412 “recherché à cause des gravures”; Wurzbach, Niederländisches Kunstlerlexicon II: 582,15.

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Catalog 71 (2022)