Scarce first German combined edition of Goeree's manuals for painting, drawing and watercolouring

Scarce first German combined edition of Goeree's manuals for painting, drawing and watercolouring

Willem Goeree (1635-1711).

Anweisung zu der Mahler-Kunst, worinnen nebst derselben Fürtrefflichkeit und Nutzen gezeiget wird, was einer zum gründlichen Verstand der Mahler-Kunst wissen, und wie er sich durch Ubung darinnen perfectioniren soll; nebst einem gründlichen Unterricht von der Reiß- und Zeichen- wie auch Illuminir-Kunst, oder dem rechten Gebrauch der Wasser-Farben.

Leipzig, Friedrich Lanckischens Erben, 1744.

3 parts in 1 volume. 8°. [8], 132, [4], 120, [2], 98 pp. With a woodcut vignette on title-page, several woodcut head- and tailpieces.

Modern half calf with marbled sides.

Very rare (WorldCat: 1 copy) first German edition of the collected artists' manuals by the Dutch author Willem Goeree. It combines the manuals by Willem Goeree on oil painting, drawing and watercolouring. These were originally published in Dutch as:

- Verlichtery-konst, in de welcke den rechten grondt, ende volkomen gebruyck der water-verwen, tot de schilder-konst, ende de illuminatie ofte verlichtery noodigh zijnde, met alle hare eygenschappen klaerlijck werden geleert (1668).

- Inleydinge tot de al-ghemeene teycken-konst (1668).

- Inleydingh tot de practijck der al-gemeene schilder-konst (1670).

These individual manuals had already appeared in German shortly after their first Dutch publication, but a combined edition had not been made in German yet. The present first German collected edition by Friedrich Lanckischens Erben appears to have been a success because they published a second edition of this translation just a year later and another in 1750 and 1756.

Condition: Waterstained throughout at the bottom part. Browned. Cut slighty short with minor loss of text at the title-page only. Otherwise in good condition.

Reference: VD18 12666815; WorldCat: 1 copy (Jena); cf. Kunstbibl. Berlin 4620, 4617 u. 4747 (later German editions).