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Lot 1100
[FRENCH BINDINGS] Lot comprising three works, one in manuscript.
Recueil d'Ariettes Choisiees. Four manuscript volumes (apparently of eight originally prepared, from an old description). Calligraphic musical manuscript, 1773-1774, no identification of scribe or place (but likely Paris). Bound in 18th century red morocco, covers simply gilt, all edges gilt. 7 5/8 x 5 3/4 inches (19 x 15 cm); 578 ff. with elaborate title vignettes in watercolor. Light wear, lower fore-corner of first volume bumped; Together with MESANGE, MATHIAS. Tarif du toise superficiel et solide... Calculs utiles aux Bourgeois qui sont batir, aux architectes, macons, peintres, menuisiers, etc. Paris: Jombert, 1743. Full red morocco, covers stamped from a brass die, spine with fleurs-de-lys. 7 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches (19 x 12 cm); unpaginated. Light wear; And GHIBBES, JACOBUS ALBANUS [JAMES ALBAN GIBBES]. Carminum ... pars lyrica; ad exemplum Q. Horatii Flacci quam proxime concinnata. Rome: Fabii de Falco, 1668. First edition. Full red armorial morocco richly gilt (this possibly Italian, not French). 6 3/8 x 4 inches (16 x 10 cm); [24], 221, [1] pp.; including engraved title and portrait. Light binding wear, slight staining to title. N.B. The rear endpapers of all the above volumes bear the deaccession stamp (dated August 17, 1904) of the Austrian National Library, and all but the second have adhered labels on the spine or covers, and other discreet stamps.
The manuscript is quite charming, and worthy of research; the second work has architectural interest; and the last is the first edition of these verses in Latin (on diverse subjects, including the Thames, Oliver Cromwell, Kenelm Digby, etc.) by an expatriate poet of major reputation in his time.
C Estate of Nancy Hoguet Tilghman
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