Catalogue Des Tableaux Estampes En Livres En Feuilles Cartes Manuscrites Gravees Montees A

by Germain Louis Auction Catalogue Chauvelin

$1,950 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

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15, 1 p. 8vo 189 x 125 mm. , 19th-cent. red cloth signed “Pierson” , title on spine. Paris: Lottin & Musier, 1762. A rare and early art auction catalogue, fully priced in a contemporary hand, and bound by Pierson in the red percaline preferred by the Goncourt brothers. Chauvelin, marquis de Grosbois 1685-1762 and Louis XV’s secretary of foreign affairs, was exiled due to the machinations of his rival Cardinal Fleury in 1737 and spent his

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