- Lot 492

[BEAUX-ARTS] Michel HUBER AND CARL CHRISTIAN HEINRICH ROST - Manuel des curieux et des amateurs de l'art, contenant une notice abrégée des principaux graveurs, et un catalog raisonné de leurs meilleurs ouvrages ; depuis le commencement de la gravure jusqu'à nos jours : les artistes rangés par ordre chronologique, et divisés par École. Volume one [-ninth]. Zurich, Orell, Gessner, Fuesslin et Comp, 1797-1808. 9 volumes in-8, 190 x 110 mm, bound in contemporary red half morocco, marbled paper boards, richly decorated smooth spine (spine of T. IX faded). [4], xl, 302; 372; [4], vi, [2 bl.], 329, [1] (jump of P. from 218 to 229); 265; [4], 413, [5 (monograms of artists from the Netherlands, contained in V. volume)]; [2], 328, 38 (alph. table of the first 6 vols.) (wetness and mold affecting top of vol.); [4], 363 (wetness and mold affecting top of vol.); [4], 354, [2]; 426 [ie 437] (pagination error; quire "U" bound before quire "T"). Volumes I & II contain the German School; III & V, the Italian School; V & VI, the Dutch School; VII & VIII, the French School; IX, the English School. Provenance: Russian dry stamp surmounted by a crown Anatolin Yevgrafovitch Palchikov (?).