Catalogue Des Tableaux Anciens Et Modernes Dessins Et Estampes Figures Colonnes Et Vases Bronzes

by Athanase Lavallee

$1,250 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

26 pp. 8vo, late 19th-cent. marbled boards, leather lettering-piece on spine, orig. printed wrappers bound-in. Paris: C. Paillet, 1818. An interesting copy of a scarce sale catalogue – annotated throughout in a contemporary hand recording prices and buyers’ names – dispersing the collection of Athanase Lavallée 1748-1818 , who was named secretary of the Louvre in 1797; we locate one copy of this catalogue in North American collections.

• Binding: Wrappers

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