Six important books from the Astor family library
Carriages | Album of 72 original designs for "distinguished" carriages
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April 17, 02:29 PM GMT
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Album of designs for "distinguished" carriages
Oblong folio (277 x 381 mm), containing 72 drawings of carriages, mostly double-page, some folding, each executed in pencil and ink and finely hand-coloured, some heightened with gold, most numbered in ink, a few captioned in Dutch, on laid paper, with J. Honig & Zoonen watermarks, nineteenth-century quarter calf over marbled boards, occasional creasing or spotting, traces of removed bookplate to front free endpaper, extremities slightly rubbed
AN ATTRACTIVE ALBUM OF DRAWINGS OF CARRIAGES.
PROVENANCE:
Bought by the Astor family in the late nineteenth century; by descent
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