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Wednesday 18 November 2020, 10:30 AM • Rome

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De Merchand, Prosper

Histoire de l'Origine et des prémiers progrès de l'Imprimerie, 1740

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The Hague, widow Le Vier and Pierre Paupie, 1740. In 4th. 2 parts in 1 volume, each with its own frontispiece, elegant allegorical figured frontispiece engraved by Schley, frontispiece printed in red and black characters and with allegorical engraved vignette, light browning, partly detached frontispiece, original binding in mottled brown calfskin, friezes on the back floral and title in gold, front plate detached, defects. Ex libris by de la Bouraliere on the counterplate, another glued to the cover sheet.




Specialist Notes

Original edition of the French scholar and bibliographer, which had considerable success. & nbsp; Prosper Marchand was a Huguenot publisher and journalist who fled France in 1709. The work was printed & nbsp; in the 300th anniversary year of the invention of printing. & nbsp; & nbsp;
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