Marolles, Tableaux du temple des muses
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Beskrivning
COPY OF QUEEN ULRIKA ELEONORA. MAROLLES, MICHEL DE. Tableaux du temple des muses, tirez du cabinet de feu mr. Favereau... Paris (chez Antoine de Sommaville) 1655.
Folio (355x230 mm). (20), 477, (9) pp. Engraved portrait of the author, 56 emblematic engravings (of 58) by Matham, Bloemart and others after designs by Abraham Diepenbeek. Lacking engraved title and 2 plates (a few plates with some larger spots, text with some staining and spotting, title with repair).
Contemporary leather binding, worn and rubbed, renovations and repairs to spine, new endpapers with old notes glued to the new ones, boards with the royal emblem of queen Ulrika Eleonora, spine in seven compartments with six raised bands and title label, speckled edges.
First edition. Brunet III:1143. Lacking the large engraved title and 2 plates.
Plates after Diepenbeek´s designs, illustrating classical fables. Michel de Marolles (1600-1681).
Provenance: Swedish queen Ulrika Eleonora (1688-1741), reigned Sweden from 1718-1720, sister of Charles XII.
Collection of Emil Hultmark, Swedish art critic and collector (1872-1943).
Auktionsnummer:
6197
Datum:
2016-06-21