Sale: 359 / Rare Books including Marine Art, Nov. 16./17. 2009 in Hamburg Lot 59

Plantin - Rooses, Max, Musée Plantin. 8 Bde. 1913


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Plantin
Rooses, Max, Musée Plantin. 8 Bde. 1913
Estimate:
€ 650 / $ 696
Sold:
€ 768 / $ 821

(incl. surcharge)
Plantin. - Rooses, M., Le Musée Plantin Moretus. Contenant la vie et l'oeuvre de Christophe Plantin et e ses successeurs les Moretus. 26 numbers in 8 issues. With 37 copper plates and numerous illustrations, vignettes and initials, partly in colours. Antwerp, G. Zazzarini 1914. Loose sheets in orig. boards. Large folio. 408 pp.
1 of 60 Roman numb. copies of the rare de-luxe edition, with a double series of the plate before letters (complete print run 505; 1 double plate lacking). - Lavishly made company history with numerous copper plates and facsimiles, prints partly made from the orig. plates. Nice and untrimmed prints. - Contains 111 coppers on a total of 73 plates (of 74, lacking just 1 double plate). Bindings with marginal blemishes in places and defective spots, 1 front board with longer tear. Inside fine and clean copy.
Lavishly made company history with numerous copper plates and facsimiles. 1 of 60 Roman numb. copies of the rare de-luxe edition. With 37 copper plates and numerous illustrations, vignettes and initials, partly in colours. Loose sheets in orig. boards. - Bindings with marginal blemishes in places and defective spots, 1 front board with longer tear. Inside fine and clean copy.




59
Plantin
Rooses, Max, Musée Plantin. 8 Bde. 1913
Estimate:
€ 650 / $ 696
Sold:
€ 768 / $ 821

(incl. surcharge)