Jun 06, 2013 - Sale 2317

Sale 2317 - Lot 296

Price Realized: $ 1,680
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
KING GEORGE THE FIRST'S COPY PICART, BERNARD; et al. Figures de la Bible. Engraved title and 68 (of 190) plates of Old Testament subjects by Picart and others after various artists, with captions in Hebrew, English, German, Latin, French, and Dutch. Folio, 496x355 mm, contemporary red morocco gilt-tooled to panel design with the arms of king george the first in center and his crowned monogram G.R. in corners, heavily worn overall, with spine ends chipped and rear joint cracked but cords intact; generally clean, rich impressions of the engravings, with only a few double-page plates browned. Laid in is a Letter Signed in German from Prince George of Denmark and Norway, husband of Queen Anne I of England, to King Frederick IV of Denmark and Norway, offering condolences on the death of the King's younger brother Prince William. 2 pages with integral blank. St. James's Palace, 4 December 1705. Amsterdam: B. Picart, 1720

Additional Details

The plates are interleaved in a large-paper copy of the first volume of Jacques Saurin's Discours . . . sur les Evenemens les plus Memorables du Vieux, et du Nouveau Testament, missing the title page but presumably the 1720 first edition, which is dedicated to George I. From the library of Charles Spencer (1674-1722), third Earl of Sunderland, sold as lot 11125 in the Blenheim Palace sale at Puttick & Simpson on 10 March 1883.