Heading: (Picart, Bernard, illustrator)
Author: [La Barre de Beaumarchais, Antoine]
Title: Tafereel, of Beschryving van den Prachtigen Tempel der Zang-Godinnen
Place Published: Amsterdam
Publisher:Zacharias Chatelain
Date Published: 1733
Description:

[6], xxviii, 158, 4 pp. With 60 copper plate engravings by Bernard Picart "The Roman", additional engraved architectural title page, title page engraved printer's device, an engraved headpiece, woodcut floriated initials and woodcut endpieces. (Folio), 47.5x32 cm (18¾x12¼") repaired (somewhat shoddily) calf-backed paper-covered boards, spine ruled in gilt.

Bernard Picart was a French engraver, son of Etienne Picart, also an engraver. He was born in Paris and died in Amsterdam. He moved to Antwerp in 1696, and then spent a year in Amsterdam before returning to France at the end of 1698. After his wife died in 1708, he moved to Amsterdam in 1711 (later being joined by his father), where he became a Protestant convert. That he is called The Roman rings with irony as he moved to Amsterdam as a Huguenot.

Chips at spine ends with vertical cracks to calf spine panel, edges and corners rubbed and bumped; hinges repaired with binding tape, half-title page torn and repaired, soiling to leaves, light foxing, mild wave to leaves; plates are mostly bright and clean in image areas, some stains and soil in margins; overall very good.