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Thursday 09 March 2023 e Friday 10 March 2023, 03:00 PM • Rome

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De Merchand, Prosper

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

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€ 70 - 100

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€ 90

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Information

The Hague, widow Le Vier and Pierre Paupie, 1740. In 4°. 2 parts in 1 volume, each with its own title page, elegant allegorical illustrated frontispiece engraved by Schley, frontispiece printed in red and black characters and with allegorical engraved vignette, light browning, frontispiece partially detached, original brown mottled calfskin binding, friezes on the spine gilt florals and title, detached front plate, defects. Ex libris of de la Bouraliere on the front cover, another glued to the flyleaf.




Specialist Notes

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