Sales catalogue 437: Maggs Bros

Date:
1923
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/21
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 437: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Famous French Collectors—condinued. Longepierre (1659-1721). 268 NovuM TESTAMENTUM (in Greek). roe sa 7 | With magnificent full-page engraved iitle, _head-preces and tail- pieces and initial letters. - Magnificent copy on Large Paper, ruled in red. : Folio. Paris (Imprimerie Royale), 1642. ‘-MAGNIFICENTLY BOUND IN FULL FRENCH BLUE MOROCCO, . THREE-LINE FILLET BORDER ON SIDES, GILT PANELLED BACE, WITH LONGEPIERRE’S DEVICE FIVE TIMES ON EACH SIDE AND REPEATED. Six: TIMES.ON- THE BACK, GE; ; £35 “THIS: MAGNIRICENT FOLIO IS KNOWN AS THE MAZARIN EDITION, SINCH IT APPEARED UNDER THH AUSPICES OF THE GREAT CARDINAL. ‘THE ENGRAVED TITLE-PAGE REPRESENTS, AN ANGEL WRITING ON AN OBELISK WHICH RESTS ON A SQUARE BASE; THE TITLE ITSELF IS INSCRIBED ON A SCROLL CARRIED BY THREE CHERUBS.’’—(HistoricaAL CaraLocte or Prinrep Brees, British AND Poreren Bre_e Society.) Longepierre (1659-1721), 269 GUICHARD (Claude). FUNERAILLES ET DIVERSES MANIERES D’ENSEVELIR DES ROMMAINS GRECS, & autres nations tants anciennes que modernes. With numerous woodcuts, tetle within woodcut border, and fine woodcuts and initials. Royal 8vo. Lyons, 1581. 3 BROWN CALF, GILT LINES ON SIDES, WITH LONGEPIERRE’S DEVICE ON BACK, Ga, £10 10s Hoym (Comte de). (Died 1736.) | 270 DE LA HOUSSAIE (AMELOT). HISTOIRE DU GOUVERNEMENT DE VENISE. With numerous large folding and very interesting illustrations of the notables and the palaces, buildings, etc., of Venice. 3: vols., 8vo. Amsterdam, Mortier, 1705 - Bye BOUND IN FRENCH CALF, THREE-LINE FILLET BORDER ON SIDES SEULEY Gil nek INSIDE DENTELLES, WITH THE ARGS OF THE FAMOUS BIBLIOPHILE AND! POLISH AMBASSADOR COMTE DE HOYM ON SIDES. £14 14s Madame de Pompadour (1721-1764), 271 GRESSET. OEUVRES DE M. GRESSET DE ‘L’ACADEMIE FRANCOISE, NOU- VELLE EDITION REVUE CORRIGEE. 2 vols., 12mo. “Londres (Chartres), -¥758. BOUND IN FULL CRIMSON MOROCCO, THREE-LINE FILLET BORDER ON SIDES, FULLY GILT BACK, WITH THE ARMS OF MADAME DE POMPADOUR ON SIDES, G. a £45 THIS WORK IS DESCRIBED IN’ MADAME DE Pompapour’s’ SALE CATALOGUE UNDER No. 729.