SMIDS, Ludolph (1649-1720) - Pictura Loquens; sive heroicarum Tabularum Hadriani Schoonebeeck Enarratio et Explicatio. Amsterdam: Adriaan Schoonebeek, 1695.   First edition with fine plates depicting mythological and historical subjects. Schoonebeeck, the illustrator and publisher, was a pupil and follower of Romeyn de Hoogh.   8vo (154 x 94mm). Engraved frontispiece, title vignette, portrait of dedicatee Nicolaas Witsen, 60 full-page engraved illustrations by Schoonebeek (minimal occasional soiling). Contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine, red edges (some light staining and restorations).

Estimate € 300 - 500