SEPT SIÈCLES DE PATRIMOINE BIBLIOPHILIQUE, 1250 - 1920.
- Chartres: Librairie Sourget, 2000.
- 4to.
- cloth, dust jacket
- (iv), 354+(1) pages
Price: $75.00 other currencies
Order Nr. 65510
Sumptuously produced presentation copy of catalogue XXII. Includes 157 entries spanning all topics, accompanied by detailed descriptions, photos of the beautifully-bound books and illustrations from them, most full-page and in lavish color. Portrays vivid illustrations with their Oriental themes from Recueil Gouaché Provenant du Château de Chenonceaux (c. 1770); samples of Moses Harris's precise artwork in his studies of insects and larvae in Le Aurélien(1778); Baltasar Held's Recueil Manuscrit de Calligraphie(c. 1620). Price list inserted with prices in French francs and euros.