Sales catalogue 506: Maggs Bros

Date:
1928
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/64
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 506: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    IN CONTEMPORARY OLIVE MOROCCO BINDING. 170 DANCOURT . c.). Le Oeuvres de Théatre de M. D’ Ancourt. Nouvelle édition revue et corrigée. 12 vols., 12mo. French contemporary olive morocco gilt, three-line fillet borders on sides, gilt ornamental backs, inside aentelles, 6. Paris, 1760. £35 A charming set in dainty bindings. ‘‘ Dancourt had a true power of observation, and a quick instinct for theatrical effect ; he exhibits in the ‘ Chevalier a la Mode’ and the ‘ Bourgeoises a la Mode,’ if not with exact fidelity, at least in telling caricature the struggle of classes in ‘the society around him, wealth, ambitious for rank, rank prepared to sel! itself for wealth.’’—Dowden. 171 DANET (.). L’Art des Armes, ou la maniere la plus certaine de se servir utilement de l’Epée, soit pour attaquer soit pour se defendre, simplifiée & démontrée dans toute son étendue & sa perfection, suivant les meilleurs principes de Théorie & de Pratique adopteés actuellement en France. Portrait, engraved frontispiece, and 33 folding plates. 8vo. Contemporary calf. Paris, 1766. £3 38 173 DANTE: L’ Inferno. _ With portrait and 75 plates by G. Doré, all in Proof State before the Letters. Folio. Bound by Holloway in full morocco, elaborately gilt on back and sides, together with inlays of blue and red morocco, Ge, Paris, 1861. £5 58
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