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Oeuvre de Jean Holbein ou Recueil de Gravures d'Apres Les Plus Beaux Ouvrages de ce Fameux Peintre.
by Mechel, Chretien de
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Basle; Chez Guiillaume Haas, 1780., 1780. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Folio, 4 parts in one volume; 2 engraved title leaves, 1 aquatint title and 51 plates as called for. Part I: title leaf, pp., [3]-12, [2], 12 plates with 47 numbered subjects (Holbein's Dance of Death) & 2 plates, of Le Triomphe de la Richesse and Le Triomphe de Pauvrete; Part II: engraved title leaf and 12 plates; Part III: Aquatint title leaf and 12 aquatint plates numbered in 2 sets of 6, with 3 additional un-numbered aquatint plates, of which 2 double-page; Part IV: decorative title page with blue panel & 10 portrait plates. Later black quarter morocco with gilt titles and blind ruling to spine over navy blue pebbled cloth; marbled endpapers. Spine scuffed with minor wear at tips; wear to board edges. Two different pictorial bookplates to front paste-down. Text leaves lightly toned; a little offsetting otherwise contents clean. A Very Good copy. Mechel's edition of Hans Holbein's work, from originals in the Imperial Gallery of St Petersburg and the Bibliotheque Publique a Basle. This copy does not include the 2 plates at the end of Part IV of the family of Thomas More which are are usually absent.
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- Bookseller
- Keel Row Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6928
- Title
- Oeuvre de Jean Holbein ou Recueil de Gravures d'Apres Les Plus Beaux Ouvrages de ce Fameux Peintre.
- Author
- Mechel, Chretien de
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Basle; Chez Guiillaume Haas, 1780.
- Date Published
- 1780
- Keywords
- Art & Design
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Established 1980. Members: ILAB/ABA/PBFA
Established 1980. Members: ILAB/ABA/PBFA
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