Curiosa

1700 · 258206 — N.p. France 1700. 95 engravings on CHINA PAPER mounted to larger sheets inluding an engraved portrait of La Fontaine each identified and numbered by hand in pencil. 1 vols. 1-1/2 x 2-1/4 inches Images ; 10-1/2 by 7-1/2 most mounts. Bound into a single volume in modern red buckram lettered in gilt on spine; "FROM A QUAKER'S COLLECTION". Flyleaf docketed in pencil "From the Collection of T. Wistar Brown" and with the bookplate of Brown's son-in-law Henry Goddard Leach. Some occasional foxing to mounts images quite clean. 95 engravings on CHINA PAPER mounted to larger sheets inluding an engraved portrait of La Fontaine each identified and numbered by hand in pencil. 1 vols. 1-1/2 x 2-1/4 inches Images ; 10-1/2 by 7-1/2 most mounts. T. Wistar Brown was the descendant of the Philadelphia Quaker family of Moses Brown and Mary Wain Wistar. Author and poet Henry Goddard Leach married T. Wistar Brown's daughter Agnes. unknown