Adriaan Schoonebeeck Sold at Auction Prices

SCHOONEBEEK, Adriaen (1658-1705). Historie van alle Ridderlyke en Krygs-Orders . Amsterdam: By the Author, 1697.

SCHOONEBEEK, Adriaen (1658-1705). Historie van alle Ridderlyke en Krygs-Orders. Amsterdam: By the Author, 1697. 2 volumes, 8o (173 x 104 mm). Frontispieces, initials and 122 full-page engravings and 15 half-page engravings, ALL ILLUMINATED IN GOLD AND COLORS BY A CONTEMPORARY ARTIST. Contemporary Dutch vellum gilt (one joint broken). Provenance: autograph letter by Francis Jenkinson of the University Library, Cambridge loosely inserted; autograph letter by Bernard Quaritch 1894 on this copy loosely inserted; Bradfer Lawrence (bookplates); acquired from Clark Stillman, 1977. FIRST EDITION of this classic work relating to orders of chivalry and the first work to contain engraved illustrations by Adriaen Schoonebeek, a pupil of Romeyn de Hooghe. A SUPERBLY COLORED COPY. Colas 2686. (2)