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MARTINET, Jean. *Le Prix de la beauté, ou Les Couronnes past…
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MARTINET, Jean. *Le Prix de la beauté, ou Les Couronnes past…
See original version (French)
Estimate €300 - €400
Voluntary lot
Description
MARTINET, Jean.
*Le Prix de la beauté, ou Les Couronnes pastorales* in three acts and a prologue.
Paris: De Lormel, 1760.
Large 8vo, (5) folios including an engraved title-frontispiece, 63-(2) pp., 4 plates, title-frontispiece, 7-9-9-7-(1)-12 pp. Blue morocco, ribbed spine, title, place and date in gold, double gilt line on the head and foot, gilt edges [Chambolle-Duru].
Description:
A partially engraved work by Pierre-Thomas Gondot, featuring music. Dedicated to ‘Her Excellency the Princess of Gallicin’, namely Nathalie Petrovna Galitzine, known at Versailles as the ‘Muscovite Venus’. The illustrations consist of a frontispiece title page, four plates and vignettes engraved on copper by Thérèse Martinet after Gravelot.
The second and third parts consist entirely of engraved music.
The work is followed by a section entirely engraved on copper, featuring a repeat of the frontispiece title and musical scores for the acts.
A fine, well-bound copy.
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