Accession number
PML 195702
Creator
Gautier de Sibert, Pierre Edmé, 1725-1797.
Published
Paris : De l'Imprimerie Royale, 1772.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2011.
Notes
Illustrated throughout with engraved plates and engraved head- and tailpieces by Nicholas Delaunay, Patas, Emmanuel de Ghendt, Charles Baquoy, and Joseph de Longueil, after designs by Charles Eisen and Jacques de Sève.
Large paper copy.
Library's copy ruled throughout in red ink; with the engraved illustrations bordered in gilt and red.
The Galitzin catalog states that this is the dedication copy to the Comte de Provence. Cf. Laveau, below.
Large paper copy.
Library's copy ruled throughout in red ink; with the engraved illustrations bordered in gilt and red.
The Galitzin catalog states that this is the dedication copy to the Comte de Provence. Cf. Laveau, below.
Description
xvi, 514, cvii p., [6] leaves of plates : ill., port. (engraving) ; 30 cm.
Provenance
Prince Mikhail Petrovitch Galitzin; bookplate of Henri, comte de La Bédoyère (his sales catalog, 1837, item 1645); William Beckford (Hamilton Palace Libraries catalogue, 2nd portion, item 86); Librairie Damascène Morgand (Bulletin 1883-1886, 3: item 8223); Horace de Landau (Catalog 1885-1890, 1: 208); bookplate of Olivier Le Bas; purchased from Benoît Forgeot, 2011.
Binding
Full Jansenist red morrocco, with blue moiré silk endpapers.
Classification
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