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100 1 # $a Le Comte, Florent
245 1 0 $a Cabinet Des Singularitez D'Architecture, Peinture, Sculpture Et Graveure, Ou Introduction A la Connoissance de plus Beaux Arts, figurés sous les Tableaux, les Statues & les Estampes. Par Florent Le Comte, Sculpteur, & Peintre, &c. Tome Premier. (- Troisième.) Seconde Edition.
246 3 # $a Introduction A la Connoissance des plus Beaux Arts
260 # # $a A Brusselles, $b chez Lambert Marchant Libraire au Bon Pasteur aux Marché aux Herbes. $c M. DCC. II. Avec Privilege Du Roy. $c [1702]
300 # # $a 3 vols. [v.I: [xx], xxxiii, [i], 354, [6]p., frontis. - v.II: [x], 433, [10]p., frontis., [2] pl. - v.III: [vi], 496, [22] p., frontis.]; $c 149 mm. (Octavo).
505 0 # $a Vol. I: [Frontis., t.p.] - Approbation - Extrait Du Privilege Du Roy - [Dedic.] - Preface - Contenu Du Premier Tome - Madrigal Sur le Sujet - [Text] - Table Des Principaux Sujets & des Noms ... - Vol. II: [Frontis., t.p., dedic.] - Preface - Reflexions Sur le Contenu de ce II. Volume - Contenant - [Text with pl.] - Table Des Principaux Sujets Et des Noms ... - Vol.III: [Frontis., t.p.] - Contenant - [Dedic.] - Preface - [Text] - Table Des Principaux Sujets & des noms ....
508 # # $a Each of the three frontispieces is signed as made by Karrewijn. The two plates in Volume II are unsigned.

The work is dedicated by the author to Jules Hardouin Mansard.
520 2 # $a Drawing on ancient writers, the works of A. Felibien, Roger de Piles and others, Le Comte's Cabinet was intended to be a complete history of art. Its most original sections are its catalogues of the engravers Jean Marot, Robert Nanteuil, Claude Mellan, Antonio Tempesta, Jacques Callot and Stefano della Bella - it was the earliest published manual for the print collector.

The two plates in Volume II show printers' monograms.
561 # # $a Recorded in RAA Library, Catalogue, 1802.
563 # # $a 18th-century calf; rebacked in 20th century, red morocco spine-labels lettered 'Cabinet De La Comte', spines numbered I, 2, 3.
653 # # $a Architecture - Painting - Sculpture - Engraving - Engravers, European - Art - Artists - History
655 # 4 $a Art history - Manuals - Catalogues - Connoisseurship - Belgium - 18th century
700 1 # $a Marchant, Lambert
700 1 # $a Mansart, Jules Hardouin
852 8 # $d 1802: D-1-13; 1821: D-1-07.