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DU PUYS DE LA SERRA (Jacques). The art of bills of exchange according to the usage of the most famous places in Europe. In Paris, by the author, and A. Warin, 1690. Warin, 1690. 8 pages, [10] f., 358 p., [1] blank, brown calf spotted period, spine with 5 nerves, gilt title, ornamented caissons, gilt roulette at the edges, edges speckled (head cap torn off, tear at tail cap, 2 corners blunted, heavy spotting in the head margin) First edition of this manual for the use of traders and financiers. It is illustrated at the head of the text with a vignette drawn and engraved on copper by N. Guérard, an initial engraved on copper and wood-engraved culs-de-lampe. The handwritten name (or signature?) of the author appears in the margin of page 1. Provenance: several early manuscript bookplates to the title, including Cleenewerck de Crayencour (an important Flanders family); discreet stamp of a Catholic college in Lille. (INED 1651).
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DU PUYS DE LA SERRA (Jacques). The art of bills of exchange according to the usage of the most famous places in Europe. In Paris, by the author, and A. Warin, 1690. Warin, 1690. 8 pages, [10] f., 358 p., [1] blank, brown calf spotted period, spine with 5 nerves, gilt title, ornamented caissons, gilt roulette at the edges, edges speckled (head cap torn off, tear at tail cap, 2 corners blunted, heavy spotting in the head margin) First edition of this manual for the use of traders and financiers. It is illustrated at the head of the text with a vignette drawn and engraved on copper by N. Guérard, an initial engraved on copper and wood-engraved culs-de-lampe. The handwritten name (or signature?) of the author appears in the margin of page 1. Provenance: several early manuscript bookplates to the title, including Cleenewerck de Crayencour (an important Flanders family); discreet stamp of a Catholic college in Lille. (INED 1651).
