The Library of Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Baron Fairhaven Part II
The Library of Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Baron Fairhaven Part II
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November 29, 03:25 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Pierre-Joseph Buc'hoz
Premiere [Seconde] Centurie de Planches enluminees et non-enluminees representant au naturel ce qui se trouve de plus interessant et de plux curieux parmi les Animaux, les Vegetaux, et les Mineraux. Paris: chez Lacombe et chez l'Auteur, [1775-]1778-1781
FIRST EDITION, 2 volumes, folio (487 x 306mm.), 200 plates in 2 states: hand-coloured and plain, divided into decades each of which has a separate engraved title, contemporary red morocco gilt in the style of Derome, spines with raised bands in eight compartments, inner dentelles, gilt edges, blue endpapers, scattered spotting and dampstaining, volume 2, plate 10 with small closed tear to lower margin (not affecting illustration), marks to upper covers, spines slightly discoloured, extremities slightly rubbed
This impressive work, hand-coloured and in a Derome-style red morocco binding, was issued in twenty parts, each comprising twenty plates. There are sixty botanical plates, sixty plates of fossils, minerals, and rocks, and eighty zoological plates, of which twenty-six are ornithological.
LITERATURE:
Anker 73; Fine Bird Books, p. 63; Nissen IVB 156
PROVENANCE:
Antoine Pâris (1668-1733), comte de Sampigny; armorial book-plate: or, on a fess azure an apple slipped, surmounted by a count's coronet; book-plate inscribed "Liverlos fecit 1721", with the initials "A.P." in the lower corners; Pâris was a financier during the reign of Louis XlV and V. He amassed a very considerable fortune but his financial activities incurred envy resulting in his fall from Royal grace in 1776.