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Anonymous. Histoire des Impératrices avec les observations morales et politiques enrichie de leurs portraicts en taille-douce. Paris, Nicolas de Sercy, 1646. In-4, [9] ff. 340 pp. illustrated with 54 full-page copper-engraved portraits. Without the handsome engraved frontispiece title. Tan calf, spine ribbed and decorated, gilt title, double gilt fillet framing the boards, gilt arms (mounted) in the center of the boards (period binding). Headcap torn off, tailcap removed, a few small defects to the spine. Rare edition of this fine anonymous work (unknown to Brunet, Graesse and Barbier) containing 54 biographies of Roman empresses, each accompanied by a full-page intaglio engraving depicting the medal portrait set in a varied décor reminiscent of ancient mausoleums. This fine engraved suite is based on the work by Roman antiquarian Eena Vico, "Le imagine delle donne auguste", published in Venice in 1557. A fine copy bearing the (later) arms of Duke Alexandre de LA ROCHEFOUCAULD et de la Roche Guyon, Prince de Marcillac, Marquis de Liancourt (O.H.R. 710 fer n°2), with the bookplate stamp on the title of the library of the Château de la Roche Guyon.

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Anonymous. Histoire des Impératrices avec les observations morales et politiques enrichie de leurs portraicts en taille-douce. Paris, Nicolas de Sercy, 1646. In-4, [9] ff. 340 pp. illustrated with 54 full-page copper-engraved portraits. Without the handsome engraved frontispiece title. Tan calf, spine ribbed and decorated, gilt title, double gilt fillet framing the boards, gilt arms (mounted) in the center of the boards (period binding). Headcap torn off, tailcap removed, a few small defects to the spine. Rare edition of this fine anonymous work (unknown to Brunet, Graesse and Barbier) containing 54 biographies of Roman empresses, each accompanied by a full-page intaglio engraving depicting the medal portrait set in a varied décor reminiscent of ancient mausoleums. This fine engraved suite is based on the work by Roman antiquarian Eena Vico, "Le imagine delle donne auguste", published in Venice in 1557. A fine copy bearing the (later) arms of Duke Alexandre de LA ROCHEFOUCAULD et de la Roche Guyon, Prince de Marcillac, Marquis de Liancourt (O.H.R. 710 fer n°2), with the bookplate stamp on the title of the library of the Château de la Roche Guyon.

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