Jean-Baptiste de Proyart (Paris)
[Stock catalogues, numbered series: 1] Catalogue un
Paris, Jean-Baptiste de Proyart, 2007
(30 × 23 cm), 183 (1) pp., illustrations (most in colour). 73 items. Price list loosely inserted. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - “Proyart began with the Beaufoy 1472 Valturius (€500,000), the 1477 Dante, an ex-Maus ‘gothique’, Les loups ravissants 1506 (€50,000) and the 1509 Pacioli (€200,000). Other remarkable books were Fuchs De natura stirpium 1542 in contemporary half tawed hide (€85,000), Ronsard Hymnes 1555 with the gilt medallion of Henri II (€65,000), the Bordes Labé Œuvres 1556 (€140,000), and a fine set of Vredeman de Vries Perspective 1605 (€50,000)… There is quite a touch of the old maestro, Pierre Berès, about this collection, and it makes an impressive entrée” (from a notice in in The Book Collector, Autumn 2007, p.420). ¶ Unmarked copy.