Livre de fleurs, dessinées d’après nature, et gravées par Vauquer

by Jacques Vauquier

$6,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

Nineteenth-century calf-backed cloth boards, rebacked retaining original spine with five raised bands, lettered gilt A rare eighteenth-century publication of Vauquier’s flower drawings engraved after nature, not recorded in the standard literature or found in major institutions. This suite of floral studies, originally engraved from nature by the seventeenth-century ornament specialist Jacques Vauquier also known as Vauquer , appears here in an 18th-century

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