![]() ![]() Register ( Tables des Matieres ) Insgesamt mit 130 Kupferstichen von und nach bedeutenden Künstlern. ![]() Titelblatt / 8 Blatt ( Widmung an den König und Vorwort ) / 247 Seiten // Band 2. Zweispaltendruck in Latein und Französich. Zwei Teile in einem Band ( komplett ) mit jeweils einem schwarz / rot gedrucktem Titelblatt mit Kupherstich-Vignette, ganzseitigem allegorischen Kupferstich-Frontispiz von Picart. Picard Bernard ( 1673 - 1733 ) (illustrator). Bindings solid with light wear and short splits along the joints with covers firm. ![]() Lacking the frontispiece owner names on front blanks title page to first volume with short stitched repair of a tear contents clean with dark impressions of the plates. Starbuck on the front pastedown of each volume with ink presentation on the bookplates. Philip Hofer in BAROQUE BOOK ILLUSTRATION refers to the illustrations as prefigurements of the "grace and elegance of the best French rococo" (page 14). Illustrated with title vignettes and 226 half-page engravings by Francois Chauveau and Sebastien Le Clerc lacking the frontispiece. Text in French translation by Issac de Benserade who was commissioned by Louis XIV to make this translation for the education of his son, Louis - Le Grand Dauphin of France. Two small quarto (6-1/4" x 8-1/4") volumes bound in full mottled calf leather with marbled endpapers and gilt-lettered contrasting morocco spine labels:, 243, 220, pages. ![]()
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