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Auction archive: Lot number 116

VALERIUS MAXIMUS, Gaius. Dictorum et Factorumque memorabilium libri IX . Rotterdam: Arnold Leers, 1681. 8° (130 x 74mm). Engraved title, woodcut initials, shoulder notes (occasional light spotting). Contemporary vellum with gilt motif incorporating a...

Auction 27.02.2005
27 Feb 2005
Estimate
£500 - £800
ca. US$943 - US$1,509
Price realised:
£900
ca. US$1,698
Auction archive: Lot number 116

VALERIUS MAXIMUS, Gaius. Dictorum et Factorumque memorabilium libri IX . Rotterdam: Arnold Leers, 1681. 8° (130 x 74mm). Engraved title, woodcut initials, shoulder notes (occasional light spotting). Contemporary vellum with gilt motif incorporating a...

Auction 27.02.2005
27 Feb 2005
Estimate
£500 - £800
ca. US$943 - US$1,509
Price realised:
£900
ca. US$1,698
Beschreibung:

VALERIUS MAXIMUS, Gaius. Dictorum et Factorumque memorabilium libri IX . Rotterdam: Arnold Leers, 1681. 8° (130 x 74mm). Engraved title, woodcut initials, shoulder notes (occasional light spotting). Contemporary vellum with gilt motif incorporating a dog, crown and shield set in floral border, evidence of 2 ties. Provenance : Alfred and Blanche de Curzon (bookplate). COMINES, Philippe de, Seigneur d'Argenton. Les memoires... , Rouen: Jean Berthelin, 1634. 8° (136 x 78mm). Engraved portraits of Louis XI, Charles, Duc de Bourgogne and the author, engraved initials, headpieces and tailpieces (a few leaves lightly browned, some spotting, light marginal dampstaining). Contemporary vellum, title in ink on spine, evidence of 2 ties, red speckled edges, yapp edges (small tear in spine with some loss, neat tears to pastedowns). With another 5 books, all bound in vellum, including Nouveau traité de la civilitae Françoise (Brussels, 1675), Jean Garet's Mortuos vivorum precibus adivvari (Amtwerp, 1565, disbound), Tacitus's Annalium (Amsterdam, 1540) and Gabrielis Naudei's Bibliographia Politica (Leiden, 1642). (7)

Auction archive: Lot number 116
Auction:
Datum:
27 Feb 2005
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
Beschreibung:

VALERIUS MAXIMUS, Gaius. Dictorum et Factorumque memorabilium libri IX . Rotterdam: Arnold Leers, 1681. 8° (130 x 74mm). Engraved title, woodcut initials, shoulder notes (occasional light spotting). Contemporary vellum with gilt motif incorporating a dog, crown and shield set in floral border, evidence of 2 ties. Provenance : Alfred and Blanche de Curzon (bookplate). COMINES, Philippe de, Seigneur d'Argenton. Les memoires... , Rouen: Jean Berthelin, 1634. 8° (136 x 78mm). Engraved portraits of Louis XI, Charles, Duc de Bourgogne and the author, engraved initials, headpieces and tailpieces (a few leaves lightly browned, some spotting, light marginal dampstaining). Contemporary vellum, title in ink on spine, evidence of 2 ties, red speckled edges, yapp edges (small tear in spine with some loss, neat tears to pastedowns). With another 5 books, all bound in vellum, including Nouveau traité de la civilitae Françoise (Brussels, 1675), Jean Garet's Mortuos vivorum precibus adivvari (Amtwerp, 1565, disbound), Tacitus's Annalium (Amsterdam, 1540) and Gabrielis Naudei's Bibliographia Politica (Leiden, 1642). (7)

Auction archive: Lot number 116
Auction:
Datum:
27 Feb 2005
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
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