Dec 04, 2014 - Sale 2369
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Sale 2369 - Lot 236

Price Realized: $ 3,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
LORRAIN, CLAUDE [Claude Gelee]. Liber Veritatis, or, a Collection of Two Hundred Prints after the Original Designs of Claude le Lorrain. 300 mezzotint plates by Richard Earlom after Lorrain. 3 volumes. Folio, 415x270 mm, first two uniformly bound in tree calf with later rebacking, retaining original spine labels; the third volume, printed later, bound in 1/2 red morocco gilt; about three quarters of the plates quite bright and clean, the remaining with light to moderate foxing as normally encountered, heaviest in Vol. 1; first two volumes lack portrait frontispieces, Volume 3 contains that of Earlom only and with marginal dampstaining to final 10 plates. Ex-collection The Count of Lepell bequeathed to the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett in the Kupferstich-Sammlung der Königliche Museen, Berlin, with royal stamps on title-pages and versos of Volumes 1 & 2, and with their deaccession stamps on title pages; to James Jerome Hill, "The Empire Builder" of the Great Northern Railroad. London: John Boydell, [1777]-1819
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