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1200 - MARGUERITE of ANGOULÊME [French Heptameron]. The Tales of Marguerite, Queen of Navarre. Bern: Nouvelle Société Typographique, 1780–1781, 3 vols., in-8°: text unspecified; frontispiece and 73 half-titles. (rare foxing and pitting; slight fading on a few engravings; small marginal tear restored on folio R4 of vol. I; traces of a document glued to one blank endpaper in vol. I). Tortoiseshell-patterned calfskin from the edition, triple gilt fillet encircling the covers, spine with gilt floral raised bands bearing the coat of arms with green title and volume number labels, gilt edges (scuffed, spine slightly cracked, small loss of leather at the upper joint of vol. III, 1 lower cap and 2 upper caps restored, corners worn and blunt). 220 beautiful etchings illustrate these gallant tales by Marguerite de Navarre (1492–1549), preceded by a preface by Jean-Rodolphe Simmer: frontispiece engraved by Eichler after Dunker, 73 figures by Sigmund Freudenberger (French name: Sigismond Freudeberg) engraved by Guttenberg, Halbou, Henriquez, de Launay the Younger, de Longueil, Leroy, Mme Duflos, and Thiébault; 72 headpieces and 72 footpieces by Dunker, engraved by himself, Eichler, Pillet, and Richter. Ref. Cohen 680–681. - Reynaud 335–336. Formerly in the collection of Millet de Montarbi (superb bookplate; see Olivier 1991, variant). - Trecis (heraldic bookplate).
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MARGUERITE of ANGOULÊME [French Heptameron]. The Tales of Marguerite, Queen of Navarre. Bern: Nouvelle Société Typographique, 1780–1781, 3 vols., in-8°: text unspecified; frontispiece and 73 half-titles. (rare foxing and pitting; slight fading on a few engravings; small marginal tear restored on folio R4 of vol. I; traces of a document glued to one blank endpaper in vol. I). Tortoiseshell-patterned calfskin from the edition, triple gilt fillet encircling the covers, spine with gilt floral raised bands bearing the coat of arms with green title and volume number labels, gilt edges (scuffed, spine slightly cracked, small loss of leather at the upper joint of vol. III, 1 lower cap and 2 upper caps restored, corners worn and blunt). 220 beautiful etchings illustrate these gallant tales by Marguerite de Navarre (1492–1549), preceded by a preface by Jean-Rodolphe Simmer: frontispiece engraved by Eichler after Dunker, 73 figures by Sigmund Freudenberger (French name: Sigismond Freudeberg) engraved by Guttenberg, Halbou, Henriquez, de Launay the Younger, de Longueil, Leroy, Mme Duflos, and Thiébault; 72 headpieces and 72 footpieces by Dunker, engraved by himself, Eichler, Pillet, and Richter. Ref. Cohen 680–681. - Reynaud 335–336. Formerly in the collection of Millet de Montarbi (superb bookplate; see Olivier 1991, variant). - Trecis (heraldic bookplate).
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