Accession number
PML 197922-24
Creator
Brianville, Claude Oronce Finé de, -1675.
Published
A Paris : Chez Charles De Sercy, au Palais, au Sixiéme Pilier de la Grande Salle, 1670-1675.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2018.
Notes
Title pages vary slightly.
With the etched frontispiece plate featuring the arms of the Dauphin in volumes 1 and 2.
Illustrated with 138 etchings by Sébastien Le Clerc.
Volume 1: [24], [2], 3-213, [15] pages; volume 2: [6], 208, [16] pages; volume 3: [12], [1], 2-219, 218-219, [7] pages.
Ruled in red throughout.
With the etched frontispiece plate featuring the arms of the Dauphin in volumes 1 and 2.
Illustrated with 138 etchings by Sébastien Le Clerc.
Volume 1: [24], [2], 3-213, [15] pages; volume 2: [6], 208, [16] pages; volume 3: [12], [1], 2-219, 218-219, [7] pages.
Ruled in red throughout.
Description
3 volumes : illustrations (etchings) ; 16 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscription reading "Bib. la Vallière", on front flyleaf of volume 1; stamp of former owner reading "PHP" on front flyleaf of volume 1.
Provenance
Bonnemet (Catalogue des livres du cabinet de feu M. Bonnemet, 1772, item 44); Duc de La Vallière (inscription front flyleaf vol. 1, Catalogue des livres de la bibliothèque de feu M. le duc de La Vallière, 1783, vol. 1, item 134); William Beckford (Catalogue of the First Portion of the Beckford Library Removed from Hamilton Palace, 1882, vol. 1, item 1216); Lignerolles (Catalogue des livres rares et précieux, manuscrits et imprimés, composant la bibliothèque de feu M. le comte de Lignerolles, 1894, vol. 1, item 80), Edouard Rahir (bookplate, La bibliothèque de feu Edouard Rahir, 1937, vol. 5, item 1263 [not seen]), and Henri Burton (bookplate, catalogue, 2005, item 20 [not seen]).
Binding
Full red morocco, with red morocco doublures, all edges gilt, by Luc-Antoine Boyet.
Classification
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