ESSAI SUR LA PEINTURE EN MOSAIQUE, par M. Le V*. - ENSEMBLE UNE DISSERTATION SUR LA PIERRE SPÉCULAIRE DES ANCIENS, par le même. [Levieil; Essay on Mosaic Painting]

Pierre Le Vieil (1708-1772, son of the glasspainters dynasty-father Guillaume Le Vieil; Master-Glassmaker and Historian, Collector of a great Reference-Library and Author of 'L'Art de la Peinture sur Verre et de la Vitrerie' which was published posthumously) / Wilhelm Heinrich Ferdinand Karl Count von Lepel (1755-1826; Royal Prussian Envoy to the Swedish Court in Stockholm, Writer, Member of the 'Akademie der Künste' in Berlin und of the Roman Academy, Art Collector and Art-Historian, Knight of the Orders of St. John and of the Red Eagle; Provenience):

Published by À Paris, chez Vente - Libraire, au bas de la montagne Sainte Génevieve, M. DCC. LXVIII. (1768). / x p. ('Catalogue des livres nouveaux', 'Avertissement [au lecteur]'), 169 pages, with few ornamental woodcuts (not glasspaint-design); (3) p. 'Privilège du Roi'. - Early 19th century black-and-grey marbled stiff cardboard-binding with manuscript paper-spinelabel; 8vo.(ca. 17 x 11,5 cm).

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°°° [Ongoing ULTIMATELY EXPANDED SUMMER-SALE, ending soon: PRICE-REDUCTION of 50% until Thursday, August 20, 2026; originally EUR 280,-] --- FIRST EDITION, WELL PRESERVED IN A SLIGHTLY LATER NEUTRAL LIBRARY-BINDING: titlepage bottom-right with round armorial stamp 'Koenigliche Museen'. titlep. verso with square stamp 'Aus der Graf v. Lepellschen Bibliothek' and larger round stamp 'Bibliothek der Königl. Acad. d. Künste zu Berlin'(Library of 'Königliche Akademie der Künste'); all stamps of late 18th or earlier nineteenth century. - Corners of the binding partly rubbed, thr ms-spinelabel - which lacks the upper right corner on ca. 0,5-3 cm seems to have been pasted over a previous one; foretitlepage with a stripe of dust at the bottom, its verso and the titlepage slightly foxy; else in best condition.

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• Title: ESSAI SUR LA PEINTURE EN MOSAIQUE, par M. Le V*. - ENSEMBLE UNE DISSERTATION SUR LA PIERRE SPÉCULAIRE DES ANCIENS, par le même. [Levieil; Essay on Mosaic Painting]
• Publisher: À Paris, chez Vente - Libraire, au bas de la montagne Sainte Génevieve, M. DCC. LXVIII. (1768). / x p. ('Catalogue des livres nouveaux', 'Avertissement [au lecteur]'), 169 pages, with few ornamental woodcuts (not glasspaint-design); (3) p. 'Privilège du Roi'. - Early 19th century black-and-grey marbled stiff cardboard-binding with manuscript paper-spinelabel; 8vo.(ca. 17 x 11,5 cm).
• Edition: 1st Edition
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