Lot 20
Binding.- Fürstenberg copy.- L'Office de la semaine sainte, a l'usage de la maison du Roy, Paris, Jacques Collombat, 1743
Hammer Price: £800
Description
Binding.- Fürstenberg copy.- L'Office de la semaine sainte, a l'usage de la maison du Roy, fine engraved frontispiece, additional pictorial title and attractive historiated borders to 5 divisional titles (these by Humblot), woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, handsome contemporary red morocco, richly gilt, with arms of Louis Ferdinand, Dauphin of France (1729-1765), covers with central arms surrounded by crowned dolphin, fleurs-de-lis, star, and various floral and foliage tools, all within double filet and scrolling fleurs-de-lis and foliage borders, spine in six compartments, all but one with central dolphin motif within ornate floral and foliage and sawtooth border, the remaining compartment titled in gilt, upper joint with tiny wormhole at head and foot, corners very slightly nicked, little rubbed, g.e., housed in a 20th century marbled board slip-case, 8vo (binding 221 x 147mm.), Paris, Jacques Collombat, 1743.
⁂ Provenance: Hans Fürstenberg ('Ex musaeo Hans Furstenberg' red morocco book label to front free endpaper); 'Ex libris jacobi forin presbiter' (contemporary ink inscription to printed title); 'Bachem' (remains of blind-stamped book label to front pastedown).
Description
Binding.- Fürstenberg copy.- L'Office de la semaine sainte, a l'usage de la maison du Roy, fine engraved frontispiece, additional pictorial title and attractive historiated borders to 5 divisional titles (these by Humblot), woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, handsome contemporary red morocco, richly gilt, with arms of Louis Ferdinand, Dauphin of France (1729-1765), covers with central arms surrounded by crowned dolphin, fleurs-de-lis, star, and various floral and foliage tools, all within double filet and scrolling fleurs-de-lis and foliage borders, spine in six compartments, all but one with central dolphin motif within ornate floral and foliage and sawtooth border, the remaining compartment titled in gilt, upper joint with tiny wormhole at head and foot, corners very slightly nicked, little rubbed, g.e., housed in a 20th century marbled board slip-case, 8vo (binding 221 x 147mm.), Paris, Jacques Collombat, 1743.
⁂ Provenance: Hans Fürstenberg ('Ex musaeo Hans Furstenberg' red morocco book label to front free endpaper); 'Ex libris jacobi forin presbiter' (contemporary ink inscription to printed title); 'Bachem' (remains of blind-stamped book label to front pastedown).
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