Ventes live - Lot 762
[Books on books]
Le Musée Plantin-Moretus.
Antwerp, G. Zazzarini & Co, 1914
Prix de marteau: €
1.700
€ 500 / 600
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Description du lot
Folio, unbound gatherings.
Full leather embossed book slip-case with marbled paper inside, in a second cardb. case with red cloth inside (outside case rubbed and waterstained). Good copy.
Deluxe edition of this work printed by J.-E. Buschmann with Plantin types. Richly ill. with copper and wood engr. both in-text and outside text printed from the original plates kept in the museum. Edition of 505 copies. One of 60 deluxe copies containing engravings and illuminated initials done by hand and a double suite of the original copper engravings. (n. XXIV).
Ref. Joos 226-230 (similar copy n. LIX, one of the copies saved from the fire at Zazzarini gallery in 1914).
Prov. [Frans Franck].