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40 - [Emblems] KRAUSS (Johann Ulrich).
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Estimate €200 - €300

Description

[Emblems] KRAUSS (Johann Ulrich). Tapestries of the King, depicting the four elements and the four seasons [...] Königliche französische Tapezereÿen [...] Augsburg, Jacob Koppmayer, 1687. A folio volume, in late 19th-century havana full calf, with a ribbed spine, blind-stamped decoration on the covers featuring fillets and a broad ornate scroll, spandrels studded with gilded fleurs-de-lis and fleurons at the corners, with gilded lace on the inside (binding signed L. Guétant). Corner restoration without damage to the text on the first 13 and last 5 folios, burnished scrolls. First German edition, with the text in French and German, of this work devoted to the royal tapestries of Louis XIV depicting the Four Elements and the Four Seasons. André Félibien’s descriptive text is accompanied by an allegorical frontispiece, 32 emblematic medallions adorned with mottos composed notably by Perrault, Chapelain and others, as well as seven large double-page plates (out of eight) engraved by Johann Ulrich Krauss (1655–1719) after designs by Charles Le Brun, reproducing the famous tapestries commissioned by Louis XIV from the Manufacture des Gobelins.

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40 - [Emblems] KRAUSS (Johann Ulrich). See original version (French)

40 - [Emblems] KRAUSS (Johann Ulrich).
See original version (French)