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Auction archive: Lot number 208

LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, François, Duc de (1613-80) Maximes et réfl...

Estimate
£1,000 - £1,500
ca. US$1,555 - US$2,333
Price realised:
£3,750
ca. US$5,834
Auction archive: Lot number 208

LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, François, Duc de (1613-80) Maximes et réfl...

Estimate
£1,000 - £1,500
ca. US$1,555 - US$2,333
Price realised:
£3,750
ca. US$5,834
Beschreibung:

LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, François, Duc de (1613-80). Maximes et réflexions morales . Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1778. 8° (192 x 123mm). Ruled in red throughout. Engraved frontispiece portrait by Choffard after Petitot. Black morocco by Bradel l’Ainé with ticket, flat spine richly gilt, sides panelled in gilt, green moiré liners, gilt edges. Provenance : Thérèse-Louise De Bure, née Saugrain (J.J. De Bure’s manuscript note ‘c[abinet] d[e] m[a] m[ère] 577’) – Jean-Jacques De Bure l’ainé (1765-1853; his collation note dated 15 January 1826; his sale, 1853, lot 253) – J.C. Dundas (his sale, Sotheby’s, 3 November 1958, lot 174; catalogue note laid-in).
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, François, Duc de (1613-80). Maximes et réflexions morales . Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1778. 8° (192 x 123mm). Ruled in red throughout. Engraved frontispiece portrait by Choffard after Petitot. Black morocco by Bradel l’Ainé with ticket, flat spine richly gilt, sides panelled in gilt, green moiré liners, gilt edges. Provenance : Thérèse-Louise De Bure, née Saugrain (J.J. De Bure’s manuscript note ‘c[abinet] d[e] m[a] m[ère] 577’) – Jean-Jacques De Bure l’ainé (1765-1853; his collation note dated 15 January 1826; his sale, 1853, lot 253) – J.C. Dundas (his sale, Sotheby’s, 3 November 1958, lot 174; catalogue note laid-in). THE DE BURE COPY . A fine, tall copy, bound by Bradel and ruled in red throughout, of this finely-printed edition, prepared from the author's original manuscript and copies of the first edition (1674) corrected by the author. De Bure belonged to a long line of booksellers, and had been granted the Imperial warrant. Brunet III, 845.

Auction archive: Lot number 208
Auction:
Datum:
9 Jun 2015
Auction house:
Christie's
9 June 2015, London, South Kensington
Beschreibung:

LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, François, Duc de (1613-80). Maximes et réflexions morales . Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1778. 8° (192 x 123mm). Ruled in red throughout. Engraved frontispiece portrait by Choffard after Petitot. Black morocco by Bradel l’Ainé with ticket, flat spine richly gilt, sides panelled in gilt, green moiré liners, gilt edges. Provenance : Thérèse-Louise De Bure, née Saugrain (J.J. De Bure’s manuscript note ‘c[abinet] d[e] m[a] m[ère] 577’) – Jean-Jacques De Bure l’ainé (1765-1853; his collation note dated 15 January 1826; his sale, 1853, lot 253) – J.C. Dundas (his sale, Sotheby’s, 3 November 1958, lot 174; catalogue note laid-in).
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, François, Duc de (1613-80). Maximes et réflexions morales . Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1778. 8° (192 x 123mm). Ruled in red throughout. Engraved frontispiece portrait by Choffard after Petitot. Black morocco by Bradel l’Ainé with ticket, flat spine richly gilt, sides panelled in gilt, green moiré liners, gilt edges. Provenance : Thérèse-Louise De Bure, née Saugrain (J.J. De Bure’s manuscript note ‘c[abinet] d[e] m[a] m[ère] 577’) – Jean-Jacques De Bure l’ainé (1765-1853; his collation note dated 15 January 1826; his sale, 1853, lot 253) – J.C. Dundas (his sale, Sotheby’s, 3 November 1958, lot 174; catalogue note laid-in). THE DE BURE COPY . A fine, tall copy, bound by Bradel and ruled in red throughout, of this finely-printed edition, prepared from the author's original manuscript and copies of the first edition (1674) corrected by the author. De Bure belonged to a long line of booksellers, and had been granted the Imperial warrant. Brunet III, 845.

Auction archive: Lot number 208
Auction:
Datum:
9 Jun 2015
Auction house:
Christie's
9 June 2015, London, South Kensington
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