Lot n° 97
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500 - 600
EUR
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Result
: 818EUR
VULSON DE LA COLOMBIÈRE Marc. Les portraits des hommes illus - Lot 97
VULSON DE LA COLOMBIÈRE Marc. Les portraits des hommes illustres françois, qui sont peints dans la gallerie du palais du cardinal de Richelieu... Paris, 1650; large folio, contemporary brown calf with flaws but still solid.
A handsome work dedicated to Chancellor Séguier, comprising 26 LARGE OUT-OF-THE-LAY PORTRAITS, beautifully engraved in intaglio: Du Guesclin, Joan of Arc, Gaston de Foix, Anne de Montmorency, Lesdiguières, Blaise de Monluc, Henri IV, Louis XIII, Gaston d'Orléans; a large plate of coats-of-arms opposite the portrait of Richelieu. Scenes from the lives of the characters depicted surround each portrait. Light staining in the margins of a few leaves. Marginal stain on another. First printing.
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