SCHOONEBEEK (Adrien). A Brief and Thorough History of the Fo - Lot 3

SCHOONEBEEK (Adrien). A Brief and Thorough History of the Founding of Religious Orders. With illustrations of their habits; engraved by Adrien Schoonebeek. Amsterdam, Adrien Schoonebeek, 1688. One volume in-8, in a rigid period vellum binding, with a trace of a handwritten title on the spine. (4) ff., 144 pp., (2) ff. French first edition published the same year as the Dutch original. It is illustrated with a frontispiece title page, a vignette on the title page, and 73 engraved plates depicting the habits of various religious orders, the last of which is titled “Ordo Distinguendi Colores.” Adrien Schoonebeek (1661–1705) was a student of Romeyn de Hooghe in Amsterdam. At the invitation of Peter I, he opened an engraving workshop in 1698 at the Armory Palace in Moscow.