Dec 01, 2005 - Sale 2059

Sale 2059 - Lot 35

Price Realized: $ 489
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
BOILEAU-DESPRÉAUX, NICOLAS. Oeuvres. Engraved allegorical frontispiece portrait of Boileau, 7 plates, and 23 vignettes by Bernard Picart; folding engraved portrait of the dedicatee, Queen Wilhelmina of England, after Godfrey Kneller. Each text page within type-ornament border. 2 volumes. Folio, contemporary mottled calf gilt with white ink shelf number on spines, joints cracked at top and bottom, small ink blot on Volume 1 front cover; institutional bookplates. Amsterdam: François Changuion, 1729

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Reprint of the 1718 Picart edition. Cohen-de Ricci, page 166; Tchemerzine (1977) I, 771 note.