Live auction - Lot 1273
[Auction catalogue - Antwerp]
Catalogus librorum Joannis Baptistae Verdussen, dum viveret Civitatis Antverpiensis Senatoris [...] in duas partes divisus [...]. Auctio eorum publice habebitur [...] Antverpiae die 15. Julii & seqq. 1776 [...].
Antwerp, Wid. H. Verdussen [= Anna Arnoldina Swijsen], (1776)
Hammer price: €
700
€ 300 / 400
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Lot description
2 parts in 1 vol., 8vo: [4]-376-23, [4]-250-24 pp. (very few spots).
Mod. quarter red leather, marbled paper boards, flat spine (spine sl. faded, joints sl. rubbed, corners sl. bumped).
A very important auction catalogue, describing the private collection formed by a member of the Antwerp Verdussen printing dynasty. Part 1 contains the private collection, part 2 the stock of the bookshop. 2 printer marks of Verdussen pasted on flyleaf.
Ref. Blogie I:19-20. - Vandenhole 298-299.
Prov. Jean-Baptiste-Théodore de Jonghe (1801-1860), Belgian bibliophile (armorial bookpl.).