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716 - Dissertation on the attributes of Venus, which was awarded a…
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Estimate €150 - €200

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Dissertation on the attributes of Venus, which was awarded an accessitus by the Académie royale des inscriptions & belles-lettres [...]. In-4° : [6]-108 pp. ; 2 h.-t. (rare pitting, slight discharge of the front). - First edition illustrated by Augustin de Saint-Aubin with 16 copper engravings: attractive frontispiece depicting Titian's Venus Anadyomene (state before the shell) and 1 plate of medals h.t., title vignette, headband, 11 in-text and 1 large culispice depicting the medals. - Ref. Cohen 541-542. - Lipsius 79. - Prov. Marquis Girolamo d'Adda (1815-1881), Milanese bibliophile and bibliographer (armorial bookplate in the name of "Ger. M.se d'Adda"; ref. Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli). - Pierre Philippe Constant Lammens (bookplate).

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716 - Dissertation on the attributes of Venus, which was awarded a… See original version (French)

716 - Dissertation on the attributes of Venus, which was awarded a…
See original version (French)