Mawhinney, Thomas A. H.MareMagnum
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12mo, 252 pages, colour frontispiece. Slight fading to the covers. Light foxing to the page edges. eng
This is a very good softcover copy with just light wear. Generally clean, a few stray marks in margins, now erased. Binding firm. Text in GERMAN. This catalog was published in conjunction with an exhibition entitled "Kirsten Pieroth : from the laboratory of Thomas A. Edison," held at Portikus Gallery, Frankfurt am Main, from December 14, 2003 to January 18, 2004. Curated by Jochen Volz. Bibliography. 11" high X 8" wide, This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
8vo., with a fine woodcut frontispiece, woodcut title-vignette, and 4 fine woodcut head-pieces in the text (one prefacing each book of the work), frontispiece and title very lightly age-stained; handsomely bound in full calf, back with five raised bands, second compartment with leather label lettered in gilt, all other compartments ruled and tooled in blind with a floral spray, new endpapers to style, speckled fore-edges, a bright, crisp copy. Third edition of the prose translation by Francois Mace (1640?-1721), first published in 1698 with a second edition the following year.The frontispiece is unsigned. BnF attributes the headpieces of Books I, II and possibly III to Jean Mariette (1660-1742). The work is prefaced by the unsigned dedication to the Duchess de Bourgogne [Marie-Adelaide de Savoie], contents of the four books, Approbation de Monsieur Coursier, Theologal de Paris, and Approbation de Monsieur Pillot, Docteur de Sorbonne & grand Penitencier de Tournay. The work is completed by litanies de Jesus-Christ, de Saint-Sacrement, de la Vierge, oraisons.Two of the four spirited head-pieces are captioned in Latin; p.161 is misprinted 147.Jean-Baptiste Coignard was printer to the King and to the Academie Francaise.Very scarce.