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Catalogue of fine bindings and valuable printed books … including Theodosus’s In somnium scipionis, 1535, in a polychrome binding for Jean Grolier and Giustiniani’s De origine urbis Venetiarum, 1534, bound for Jean Grolier; Colonna’s Hypnerotomachia poliphili, 1499, in a fine 16th century Antwerp binding by Claus van Duermale; the Fermiers Generaux La Fontaine in a reliure de présent by Derome le jeune and Longus’s Daphnis et Chloé, 1718, bound by A.-N. Padeloup le jeune; Buffon’s Histoire naturelle, 1749-1804, partially bound for Maria-Leczinska, and books bound for Madame de Pompadour, Cardinal Rospigliosi and Pier-Luigi Farnese; a 16th century Venetian purple vellum binding and other fine Italian bindings; manuscript Venetian ducali of the 16th-18th century; an important early 15th century Austrian cuir-ciselé binding and a fine 17th century north German or Dutch silver binding; Thomas’s Antiquitates, bound by Roger Payne for Sir Richard Colt Hoare (catalogue for an auction conducted by Sotheby & Co., London, 28 February 1966)
London, Sotheby & Co., 1966- Subject(s)
- Auction sale catalogues - Books - 1966, Bookbinding - Collections, UK - Mendl (Stephen)
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