Accession number
PML 198290
Published
A Paris : De la boutique de feu M. Josset ... Chez Louis Josse ... et Charles Robustel ... ruë Saint Jacques, M. DCCXXV [1725]
Credit line
Mrs. Jayne Wrightsman in honor of Mrs. Annette de la Renta.
Description
[8], xxiv, 557, [11] pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations (engravings) ; 21 cm
Notes
Title page printed in red and black.
Frontispiece by P. Van Schuppen after Phil de Champaigne.
Translation ascribed to Le Maistre de Sacy by Bibl. nat. Catalogue; to Antoine Le Maistre (his brother) by British Museum catalog.
Library's copy house
Frontispiece by P. Van Schuppen after Phil de Champaigne.
Translation ascribed to Le Maistre de Sacy by Bibl. nat. Catalogue; to Antoine Le Maistre (his brother) by British Museum catalog.
Library's copy house
Binding
Contemporary Parisian binding executed by Jacques-Antoine Derome for Queen Marie Leczinska of France, wife of Louis XV (1703-1768), profusely inlaid and gilt, cream, black, and red morocco, with armorials of Louis XV and Marie painted on parchment and und
Provenance
Marie Leczinska of France, armorial binding; Henri Lavedan, de l'Academie Française, his sale, Paris, February 1, 1929; Jayne Wrightsman (1919-2019), New York, purchased from Martin Breslauer, Inc., 1983.
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