Lot 6
Bullfighting.- Fernandez Noseret (Luis) Coleccion de las principales suertes de una corrida de toros, Madrid, [c.1792].
Hammer Price: £950
Description
Bullfighting.- Fernandez Noseret (Luis) Coleccion de las principales suertes de una corrida de toros, 13 fine engraved plates by Noseret after Antonio Carnicero, light foxing, bookplate of Sir William Stirling-Maxwell to front pastedown with his note in pencil to front free endpaper, handsome 19th century marbled roan, arms of Stirling-Maxwell to covers, light rubbing to extremities, g.e., title embossed into lower gilt edge, oblong small folio, [Madrid], [c.1792].
⁂ A good example of this rare suite initially printed in a very small run before being reprinted in the 19th and 20th centuries. We can only trace 1 other example of a complete set at auction.
Description
Bullfighting.- Fernandez Noseret (Luis) Coleccion de las principales suertes de una corrida de toros, 13 fine engraved plates by Noseret after Antonio Carnicero, light foxing, bookplate of Sir William Stirling-Maxwell to front pastedown with his note in pencil to front free endpaper, handsome 19th century marbled roan, arms of Stirling-Maxwell to covers, light rubbing to extremities, g.e., title embossed into lower gilt edge, oblong small folio, [Madrid], [c.1792].
⁂ A good example of this rare suite initially printed in a very small run before being reprinted in the 19th and 20th centuries. We can only trace 1 other example of a complete set at auction.