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Accession number
PML 2263-64
Published
Cologne [i.e. Amsterdam] : Pierre Gaillard, 1701.
Credit line
Purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Notes
Plates engraved by Van der Gouen after designs by Romeyn de Hooghe.
Contains the price codes of the bookseller Guillaume-Luc Bailly and is the copy described in Bailly's December 1785 catalogue, part of a set uniformly bound by Derome. Other volumes in the set are in the Rothschild collection at Waddesdon Manor. See departmental file and Giles Barber, Printed books and bookbindings ... the James A. de Rothschild bequest (2013), nos. 75 and 461.
Description
2 v. : front., 100 plates ; (16mo)
Provenance
Sir Thomas Abdy, bookplate; Henry Cunliffe, bookplate; Toovey collection.
Binding
Red morocco, by Derome.
Classification
Department