拍品 95
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ARMORIAL BINDING -- Histoire de la Société Royale de Médicine [for 1784-1785]. Paris: Théophile Barrois le jeune, 1788. 4° (255 x 195mm), half title, wood-engraved vignette and ornamental head- and tailpieces, text diagrams, folding tables (occasional small spot), contemporary red morocco gilt, arms of Louis-Joseph of France [Olivier 2530, the outer decoration differing slightly from the fer reproduced there] on sides, fleur-de-lis at corners and in spine compartments, marbled endpapers, gilt edges (a little light rubbing). Provenance: Louis-Joseph of France (1781-89; binding) -- Rudolph August Witthaus (bookplate) -- Charles A. Mead (given to:) -- Orange Free Library (bookplate, stamp on title verso) -- Dr. Samuel Koslov (sale Christie's East, 12 Novemer 1996, lot 70).
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ARMORIAL BINDING -- Histoire de la Société Royale de Médicine [for 1784-1785]. Paris: Théophile Barrois le jeune, 1788. 4° (255 x 195mm), half title, wood-engraved vignette and ornamental head- and tailpieces, text diagrams, folding tables (occasional small spot), contemporary red morocco gilt, arms of Louis-Joseph of France [Olivier 2530, the outer decoration differing slightly from the fer reproduced there] on sides, fleur-de-lis at corners and in spine compartments, marbled endpapers, gilt edges (a little light rubbing). Provenance: Louis-Joseph of France (1781-89; binding) -- Rudolph August Witthaus (bookplate) -- Charles A. Mead (given to:) -- Orange Free Library (bookplate, stamp on title verso) -- Dr. Samuel Koslov (sale Christie's East, 12 Novemer 1996, lot 70).

细节
ARMORIAL BINDING -- Histoire de la Société Royale de Médicine [for 1784-1785]. Paris: Théophile Barrois le jeune, 1788. 4° (255 x 195mm), half title, wood-engraved vignette and ornamental head- and tailpieces, text diagrams, folding tables (occasional small spot), contemporary red morocco gilt, arms of Louis-Joseph of France [Olivier 2530, the outer decoration differing slightly from the fer reproduced there] on sides, fleur-de-lis at corners and in spine compartments, marbled endpapers, gilt edges (a little light rubbing). Provenance: Louis-Joseph of France (1781-89; binding) -- Rudolph August Witthaus (bookplate) -- Charles A. Mead (given to:) -- Orange Free Library (bookplate, stamp on title verso) -- Dr. Samuel Koslov (sale Christie's East, 12 Novemer 1996, lot 70).

Louis-Joseph, eldest son of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, died of natural causes when only 8 years old early in the year when the French Revolution began. Consequently, books with his arms are rare.

SEE PLATE I.
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