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Album or complete collection & history of the Costumes of the Cour de Rome, 1862

Estimate

€ 150 - 200

Sold

€ 323

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Information

Paris, Ancienne Maison Silvestre, 1862. In 8°. Half leather binding with marbled boards. Spine with 4 corners and with title, author and decorations printed in gold. The front cover of the editorial cover printed in red and black and with an oval bearing the portrait of Pope Pius IX is preserved. Marbled endpapers. Ex libris on the back cover. Text in French. A beautiful collection of 80 Lavoisier lithographs, clearly colored and excellently preserved, depicting the clothes of cardinals, bishops, prelates, officials, Vatican guards, etc., to be worn regularly or during special ceremonies. Light browning and reddening.

Second edition, exemplified on the first, which appeared in 1852, of this splendid suite of "planches...copiées sur les recueils de costumes ecclesiastiques de Ferrari et Capparoni", Colas I 2323; Hiler 702; Lipperheide 1825.

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