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30 - QUEYROY (Armand): 2 works
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Estimate €80 - €120
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QUEYROY (Armand): 2 works - CHASTELLAIN (Georges) – ROBERTET (Jean de) – MONTFERRAND – LA RIERE. The Twelve Ladies of Rhetoric. Published for the first time from the manuscripts of the Royal Library, with an introduction by Louis Batissier and illustrated with engravings by Schaal. Moulins, Desrosiers, 1838, in-4 (25.5 x 34 cm), engraved title page – 28 pp. – 63 unnumbered folios – 14 plates. Contemporary ultramarine half-basane, with a romantic cold-stamped fleur-de-lis and Gothic lettering, trimmed. A copy with generous margins. A simple binding showing minor imperfections, with a few small stains on the first few leaves. First publication of a curious 15th-century manuscript held at the Royal Library, which had caught the attention of the Bourbonnais historian Achille Allier due to the figures who feature in it, either prominently or in passing. It is a collection of letters and allegorical poems exchanged between four individuals: G. Chastellain, Jean Robertet, M. de La Rière (squire to a Duchess of Bourbon) and M. de Montferrand (governor to Jacques de Bourbon). Following this correspondence is the collection known as the ‘Twelve Ladies’… a series of twelve poems on science, eloquence, profundity, the gravity of the senses, and so on. On the death of A. Allier, Desrosiers entrusted the publication to Louis Batissier, who wrote the introduction and the historical, critical and philological notes. The print run was limited to 300 copies. (See *L’Art en Province* II, p. 290 and III, pp. 45–52). - QUEYROY (collection). Catalogue of works of art and rare curiosities from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance… comprising the collection of the late Mr Armand Queyroi, former curator of the Moulins Museum. Paris, Paul Chevallier, auctioneer, (1907), in-4 (20 x 30 cm), 39 pages and 10 plates of black-and-white photogravures, printed on heavy paper. Modern Bradel-style binding in beige cloth, title label running lengthwise, cover preserved, untrimmed. – A fresh copy. Catalogue of the famous Queyroi collection, sold at Drouot in February 1907, 191 lots described. Earthenware, champlevé and painted enamels, brassware, caskets, ironwork, sculptures in stone, marble and wood, furniture, tapestries, old paintings from the German, Byzantine, Flemish and French schools of the 15th and 16th centuries, a door panel by Chardin…
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About the sale ANTIQUE AND MODERN BOOKS at 11.00 am and 2.00 pm
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Auction time 10/29/2026 at 11:00 AM
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