Dec 13, 2018 - Sale 2496

Sale 2496 - Lot 236

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
CORONELLI, VINCENZO. La Francia Divisa in XII Prefetture. Engraved general title, engraved Gli Argonauti frontispiece, 3 engraved title-pages, 20 engraved sectional titles and 281 engraved plates and maps (several folding). 20 parts in 3 volumes. Oblong 4to, 7 1/2x9 1/2 inches, rather nice contemporary vellum with minor worming to spines, each spine lettered in ink 'Coronelli Teatro da Guerr' and numbered T4, T5, and T6; title-pages to volumes II and III from the same plate as volume I with manuscript alterations, large maps with small separations at fold intersections, minor intermittent staining; ex-libris bookplates of Jean R. Perrette. [Venice, circa 1706]

Additional Details

A handsome copy of the complete French section of Coronelli's monumental 20(?) volume 'Teatro della Guerra'.