2941 lots (1450 drawings and other; 1491 prints).
Two states known; the second has "Fautes à corriger" added to p. 418; earlier state does not have these.
This copy in the second state.
Signatures: A⁸, ²A-2C⁸ 2D² (last leaf blank).
Head- and tail-pieces.
The plates include: etched, ornamental title page by Moreau le jeune; frontispiece engraved by Choffard after C.N. Cochin; four etchings by Mariette: two landscapes (one folded) after Guercino, "Le Pape Adrien VI et quatre Cardinaux" after Perino del Vaga, and one study with five heads, found in two states in this catalogue. One state has date only "1724" in lower right; other state has also added in lower left: L. Carrache; in lower right preceding date: Mariette sc.
In this copy the large landscape is bound as a two-page plate; the study with the five heads is in the state without the text in the lower left.
"Errata": p. vij.
"Livres d'estampes, sciences et arts, par ordre de faculté": pages 373-418.
This copy annotated throughout with prices and buyers' names.
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Catalogue raisonné des différens objets de curiosités dans les sciences et arts : qui composoient le cabinet de feu Mr. Mariette, controleur général de la Grande Chancellerie de France ... / par F. Basan, graveur.
Accession number:
PML 198248.1
Published:
A Paris : Chez l'auteur, rue et Hôtel Serpente, et chez G. Desprez, imprimeur du roi et du clergé de France, rue St. Jacques, 1775.
Description:
xvj, 418, [2] p., [6] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill. ; 20 cm (8vo)
Credit:
Purchased on the Henry S. Morgan Fund, 2019.
Notes:
Binding:
Green vellum.
Provenance:
Book stamp of Stév.-F. Constant-Viguier.
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