Search Results: Copper Engravings from Charles Agvent

Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1697. Early Edition. Hardcover. Lacking the frontispiece; owner names on front blanks; title page to first volume with short stitched repair of a tear; contents clean with dark impressions of the plates. Bindings solid with light wear and short splits along the joints with covers firm. Near Fine. Two small quarto (6-1/4" x 8-1/4") volumes bound in full mottled calf leather with marbled endpapers and gilt-lettered contrasting morocco spine labels: [x], 243, [1]; 220, [4] pages. Text in French translation by Issac de Benserade who was commissioned by Louis XIV to make this translation for the education of his son, Louis -- Le Grand Dauphin of France. Illustrated with title vignettes and 226 half-page engravings by Francois Chauveau and Sebastien Le Clerc; lacking the frontispiece. The plates are copies (mostly reversed and unsigned) of the original etchings by Chauveau and Leclerc; they were first published in 1679 (Amsterdam: Abraham Wolfgang). Philip Hofer in BAROQUE BOOK… Read More

The Hague: Isaac Burchoorn, 1632. First Edition. Hardcover. Bookplate of Victor De Guinzbourg on front pastedown and early signature on original front endpaper. One leaf with closed tear, another leaf with old marginal paper repair of a short closed tear, mild and even age-toning but contents excellent with plates well struck with dark impressions. Near Fine copy of this beautifully illustrated book. Quarto (6-1/4" x 8-3/4") bound in modern smooth brown morocco-backed cloth, [16], 16, 168, 104, 56, 160, 24 pages. Text in Latin and Dutch. Illustrated with a frontispiece dated 1630 and 126 nearly full-page engravings by Matham after A. van de Venne. Landwehr, EMBLEM BOOKS IN THE LOW COUNTRIES, 109; Praz 301.