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[LA CHAU (l'abbé) et l'abbé LE BLOND]
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[LA CHAU (l'abbé) et l'abbé LE BLOND]
Description of the main engraved stones of the cabinet of H.S.H. Monseigneur le duc d'Orléans, first prince of blood. Paris, l'abbé La Chau, l'abbé Le Blond, Pissot, 1780-1784. 2 volumes small folio, blue morocco, cold fillet, gilt fleuron at the corners, decorated spine, red title piece, large inside lace, strong paper lining decorated with an iron urn at the corners, gilt edges (English binding ca. 1880). Original
edition
.
Superb allegorical frontispiece with the medallion portrait of the Duke of Orleans, engraved on copper by Augustin de Saint-Aubin after Charles-Nicolas Cochin, a fleuron repeated on the titles, 2 headed vignettes, 179 engraved stone plates and 56
culs-de-lampe.
Copy from the Edward Hailstone Library (1818-1890), English bibliophile and antique dealer. It appeared in the catalogue of the latter (1891, no. 1183), where it was advertised as being bound in calfskin (old calf)| since then it has been bound in morocco in the taste of the 18th century and the engraved ex-libris of the bibliophile has been glued
back on the back covers.
A pencil note indicates that the binding was made by Francis Bedford, a London-based practitioner who died
in 1883,
from the Robert de Billy Library, with ex-libris
.
Frontispiece and rusty titles. Traces of wax on the binding.
Description of the main engraved stones of the cabinet of H.S.H. Monseigneur le duc d'Orléans, first prince of blood. Paris, l'abbé La Chau, l'abbé Le Blond, Pissot, 1780-1784. 2 volumes small folio, blue morocco, cold fillet, gilt fleuron at the corners, decorated spine, red title piece, large inside lace, strong paper lining decorated with an iron urn at the corners, gilt edges (English binding ca. 1880). Original
edition
.
Superb allegorical frontispiece with the medallion portrait of the Duke of Orleans, engraved on copper by Augustin de Saint-Aubin after Charles-Nicolas Cochin, a fleuron repeated on the titles, 2 headed vignettes, 179 engraved stone plates and 56
culs-de-lampe.
Copy from the Edward Hailstone Library (1818-1890), English bibliophile and antique dealer. It appeared in the catalogue of the latter (1891, no. 1183), where it was advertised as being bound in calfskin (old calf)| since then it has been bound in morocco in the taste of the 18th century and the engraved ex-libris of the bibliophile has been glued
back on the back covers.
A pencil note indicates that the binding was made by Francis Bedford, a London-based practitioner who died
in 1883,
from the Robert de Billy Library, with ex-libris
.
Frontispiece and rusty titles. Traces of wax on the binding.