[Amsterdam], Frederick de Wit, [1700]. Small, square folio (20.4 x 17.2 cm). Engraved title page (numbered 1); 23 engraved plates (numbered 2-24). 19th-century blind half linen over marbled boards.

A very rare publication - we know of only one other copy, in the British Museum library (see Universal Catalogue of Books on Art, which lists 1700 as year of publication). The title page engraved by the Dutch illustrator, cartographer and publisher Gerard Valk, or Valck (1652-1726) and 23 plates by the Dutch engraver and publisher Frederick de Wit (1630-1706), after Abraham Bloemaert (1564-1651). All engravings by De Wit show a person (all but two in the nude) twice: as a simple line-engraving, and again, in more detail, with additional hatchings, adding shades and finer details. Apparently a "Tweede Deel" (second volume) was published later, by Valck, as it is present in the collection of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. The Rijksmuseum, however, does not record this (first) Nieuw Teecken-Boeck. All plates with ample margins, yet mounted on still larger sheets; one plate with a few small stains, and a few with light spotting in the blank margins; otherwise very good, complete. Provenance: the library of P. J. Buijnsters (1933-2022), who published on Dutch 18th-century literature, and his wife and co-author of publications about Dutch children's books, L. M. A. Buijnsters-Smets (1937-2021), who amassed a library of fine and unusual Dutch books and Dutch editions of foreign works on subjects such as travel, history, natural history, emblemata, artist's manuals, children's books, etc. Universal Catalogue of Books on Art, p. 123.