Baudier, Michel

估價

1,000 - 1,500 GBP

已售出

1,625 GBP

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描述

Histoire de la Cour du Roy de la Chine. Paris: Claude Cramoisy, 1624
Printed Book

FIRST EDITION, 4to (240 x 170mm.), engraved vignette on title, woodcut initials and head-pieces, vellum binding, ink lettering on spine head, leaves lightly browned with scattered pencil notes, repair of small tear to leaf H, minor wear to extremities

來源

Pierre Mouchon, bookplate

出版

Cordier, Sinica 21; Löwendahl 66

拍品資料及來源

"Michel Baudier, court historiographer and bibliophile was, according to his own testimony, present at the Louvre in 1616 when a Flemish Jesuit, certainly Nicolas Trigault, recounted to the young King Louis XIII, the marvels of the city of Beijing and its court" (Löwendahl).