Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
December 1927
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/722
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    857 858 559 860 S61 862 2 vol. two portraits, plates and vignettes, LARGE PAPER, COn- temporary French red morocco, 3-line fillet round sides, gilt back decorated with flowers, dots and sprays, g.e.; Vernon copy 8v0. In Parigr, presso la Vedova Quillau, 1760 old red morocco, 3-line fillet on sides, gilt back, inside gilt border, g. e. Renouard’s copy; sold as a binding and not subject to return for imperfections of text, IN FINE CONDITION 8vo. Leovardiae, 1747 within woodcut border, woodcuts, contemporary Italian binding of brown morocco gilt, panelled sides, edges gilt and gauffred, with ties 8vo. Florence, F. de Giunta, 1513 AFTER MOREAU, LARGE PAPER (250 mm. by 153 mm.), bound in old red morocco, key pattern border round sides, gilt back, g.@. by BozERtan, de Tlimprimerie de la Societie Littéraire- Typographique (a Kehl), 1785-89—Supplément au Recueil des Lettres, 2 vol. Paris, 1808; Table Analytique, 2 vol. 1b. 1801 —Memoires sur Voltaire, 2 vol. ib. 1826; bound in red morocco gilt, uniformly with the preceding (the last 4 vol. are small paper), A VERY FINE SET; from the Vernon collection 8vo. (76) [See ILLUSTRATION, opposite page 81. | frontispiece, engraved title (containing a medallion portrait of Voltaire), ten plates and vignettes by Ch. Eisen, fine impres- sions of the plates before letters, with text added in pencil below each plate, old red morocco, 3-line fillet round sides with. - corner ornaments, guilt back decorated with flowers, rings, etc., g. @., A FINE COPY; from the Vernon collection 8vo. Paris, chez la Veuve Duchesne, Saillant, Desaint, Panckoucke et Nyon, [ibraires, 1769-1770 avec les notes et les variantes. Edition conforme a l’originale, publiée en 1784, 2 vol. A VERY FINE LARGE PAPER COPY EXTRA- ILLUSTRATED WITH ADDITIONAL PLATES (see below), old straight- grained blue morocco, ‘gilt border round sides with chain- pattern decoration of gold and lozenges and circles painted red, back elaborately gilt, by BozERIAN, g.e., pink watered suk linings; from the Vernon collection 8vo. De limprimerie de la socieété littéraire-typographique,
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