Accession number
PML 4668
Creator
Choisy, abbé de, 1644-1724.
Published
Paris : Chez Antoine Dezallier, 1689.
Notes
"Extrait d'un manuscrit de la biblioteque du roi. Cotté 8356": 37 p. at end.
On p. 456 colophon: Paris, De l'Imprimerie d'Antoine Lambin, 1689.
Engraved title-vignette (repeated on p. 306) head-piece to Dedicatory Epistle and tail-piece (p. 182) contain the arms and insignia of Louis XIV.
With 5 head-pieces engraved by A. Le Clerc.
On p. 456 colophon: Paris, De l'Imprimerie d'Antoine Lambin, 1689.
Engraved title-vignette (repeated on p. 306) head-piece to Dedicatory Epistle and tail-piece (p. 182) contain the arms and insignia of Louis XIV.
With 5 head-pieces engraved by A. Le Clerc.
Description
456, 37 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Provenance
William Beckford (1760-1844), purchase inscription: Payne 28 March 1842, his library descended to his daughter Susan and son-in-law Alexander Douglas 10th Duke of Hamilton; Hamilton Palace Library and Beckford Library sale, Sotheby's, part I, 30 June 1882, lot 1914, to Bohm; James Toovey (1814-1893); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Binding
Red morocco, gilt.
Classification
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