
Lot 26•
BRETON DE LA MARTINIÈRE (JEAN BAPTISTE) China: its Costume, Arts, Manufactures, 4 vol. in 2; with 2 others (8)
1 February 2017, 13:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,000 inc. premium
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BRETON DE LA MARTINIÈRE (JEAN BAPTISTE)
China: its Costume, Arts, Manufactures, 4 vol. in 2, translated from the French, 79 hand-coloured engraved plates (of 80, one repaired, several shaved), contemporary straight-grained burgundy morocco gilt, g.e., spines rubbed [cf. Colas 435], Howlett and Brimmer, 1824; La Chine en miniature, 4 vol. (without supplements), 80 engraved plates (5 hand-coloured, several shaved), later cloth-backed boards, untrimmed [Colas 433], Paris, Nepveu, 1811--ALEXANDER (WILLIAM) Costumes et vues de la Chine, 2 vol., half-titles (one repaired), 53 engraved plates (29 double-page, 4 folding, one shaved), nineteenth century boards gilt, sunned [Colas 77], Paris, Nepveu, 1815, 12mo (8)
Footnotes
Provenance: First work, Anne Dodwell, armorial bookplate; second work, Jeanne Pépin, small ownership stamp on one title-page; third work, Fürstlich Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg Sche Hofbibliothek, library stamps.