Live auction - Lot 712
Entirely engraved
[Calligraphy]
Nouvelles heures gravées au burin dediées au roy.
Paris, J. Mariette, [1695]
€ 300 / 400
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Lot description
16mo: [2]-212-8 pp. (occ. marg. spotting and light corner staining).
Contemp. red morocco, covers with stipple-gilt frame and grape corner pieces, gilt-orn. spine with raised bands, gilt sides & inside dentelles, a.e.g (sl. rubbed at joints & corners). Good copy.
Nice book of hours entirely engraved by the French writing master Duval (1635-1701?). Text in civilités, ruled, decorated with head- and tailpieces, initials, 1 full-page and with 6 part-titles. Quite scarce.
Ref. Bonacini 561 ("chez N. Langlois").