Mar 08, 2018 - Sale 2468

Sale 2468 - Lot 180

Price Realized: $ 2,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
[MONCRIF, FRANÇOIS-AUGUSTIN PARADIS DE.] Les Chats. 9 etched plates after Coypel, including 2 folding; folding letterpress genealogical table showing the descendants of Brinbelle, the Ottoman Sultan's favorite cat. [2], 204, [16] pages. bound with: [SIGRAIS, CLAUDE-GUILLAUME BOURDON DE.] Les Rats. 2 etched plates. [4], xvi, 140, [13] pages, including half-title and final leaf of errata. Together, 2 volumes in one. 8vo, 192x119 mm, contemporary mottled sheep gilt; scattered marginal foxing not affecting plates, light offsetting from frontispiece onto title in second work. Paris: Gabriel-François Guillau, 1727; "Ratopolis," 1737

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first editions of the first books devoted to cats and rats, respectively, each in the form of a series of letters on the lore of the species. Cohen de Ricci 721, 954.