BARRE, Joseph (d.1794). Histoire générale d'Allemagne. Paris: Charles J.B. Delespine for C.J.B. Delespine, Jean-Thomas Herissant and Claude Thiboust [vols I-II] and C.J.B. Delespine and J.-T. Herissant [vols III-X], 1748. 10 volumes bound in 11, 4° (288 x 220mm), engraved frontispiece by Le Bas after Caze, engraved portrait frontispiece of the dedicatee by J. Daullé after de Silvestre, engraved dedication with vignette of the dedicatee's arms, 3 engraved folding maps after Robert hand-coloured in outline, 59 engraved head- and tailpieces by Le Bas after Le Bas, J. Frontier, Canot, and Gravelot, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials, engraved title vignettes by J.P. Le Bas after Eisen, half titles to vols. II-X (occasional light spotting or light marking, a few gatherings lightly browned, occasional marginal paper flaws, gathering VII/5O repeated), contemporary French red morocco gilt, boards with arms of August III of Poland, triple-fillet borders, gilt board edges and turn-ins, spines gilt in compartments, gilt morocco lettering-pieces in 2, others decorated with floral and star tools, gold-printed patterned endpapers, gilt edges (some light rubbing and scuffing, some minor chipping and bumping to extremities, some joints with superficial cracking, some discoloration and staining to endpapers). Provenance: Klemens Wenzeslaus, King August III of Poland (1696-1763, bookplates) -- '27[sic].v.35 A , Hb XI Vol' (inscription on upper pastedown of vol. I, possibly referring to the Heber copy, sale 26 May 1835 [i.e. A-B], lot 528) -- [comte Octave de Béhague (1826-1879) -- James de Rothschild (cf. Cohen-De Ricci)] -- traces of bookplates on front free endpapers -- vol. III with engraved cartouche enclosing painted silhouette pasted onto front free endpaper.FIRST EDITION, LARGE-PAPER. THE DEDICATION SET FROM THE LIBRARY OF AUGUST III OF POLAND. Brunet I, 666; Cohen-De Ricci 113-114 (citing this set: 'en maroquin rouge aux armes de Frédéric-Auguste III de Pologne, 175 fr., vente Béhague (n. 1877), aujourd'hui collection James de Rothschild'). (11)

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BARRE, Joseph (d.1794). Histoire générale d'Allemagne. Paris: Charles J.B. Delespine for C.J.B. Delespine, Jean-Thomas Herissant and Claude Thiboust [vols I-II] and C.J.B. Delespine and J.-T. Herissant [vols III-X], 1748. 10 volumes bound in 11, 4° (288 x 220mm), engraved frontispiece by Le Bas after Caze, engraved portrait frontispiece of the dedicatee by J. Daullé after de Silvestre, engraved dedication with vignette of the dedicatee's arms, 3 engraved folding maps after Robert hand-coloured in outline, 59 engraved head- and tailpieces by Le Bas after Le Bas, J. Frontier, Canot, and Gravelot, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials, engraved title vignettes by J.P. Le Bas after Eisen, half titles to vols. II-X (occasional light spotting or light marking, a few gatherings lightly browned, occasional marginal paper flaws, gathering VII/5O repeated), contemporary French red morocco gilt, boards with arms of August III of Poland, triple-fillet borders, gilt board edges and turn-ins, spines gilt in compartments, gilt morocco lettering-pieces in 2, others decorated with floral and star tools, gold-printed patterned endpapers, gilt edges (some light rubbing and scuffing, some minor chipping and bumping to extremities, some joints with superficial cracking, some discoloration and staining to endpapers). Provenance: Klemens Wenzeslaus, King August III of Poland (1696-1763, bookplates) -- '27[sic].v.35 A , Hb XI Vol' (inscription on upper pastedown of vol. I, possibly referring to the Heber copy, sale 26 May 1835 [i.e. A-B], lot 528) -- [comte Octave de Béhague (1826-1879) -- James de Rothschild (cf. Cohen-De Ricci)] -- traces of bookplates on front free endpapers -- vol. III with engraved cartouche enclosing painted silhouette pasted onto front free endpaper. FIRST EDITION, LARGE-PAPER. THE DEDICATION SET FROM THE LIBRARY OF AUGUST III OF POLAND. Brunet I, 666; Cohen-De Ricci 113-114 (citing this set: 'en maroquin rouge aux armes de Frédéric-Auguste III de Pologne, 175 fr., vente Béhague (n. 1877), aujourd'hui collection James de Rothschild'). (11)

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BARRE, Joseph (d.1794). Histoire générale d'Allemagne. Paris: Charles J.B. Delespine for C.J.B. Delespine, Jean-Thomas Herissant and Claude Thiboust [vols I-II] and C.J.B. Delespine and J.-T. Herissant [vols III-X], 1748. 10 volumes bound in 11, 4° (288 x 220mm), engraved frontispiece by Le Bas after Caze, engraved portrait frontispiece of the dedicatee by J. Daullé after de Silvestre, engraved dedication with vignette of the dedicatee's arms, 3 engraved folding maps after Robert hand-coloured in outline, 59 engraved head- and tailpieces by Le Bas after Le Bas, J. Frontier, Canot, and Gravelot, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials, engraved title vignettes by J.P. Le Bas after Eisen, half titles to vols. II-X (occasional light spotting or light marking, a few gatherings lightly browned, occasional marginal paper flaws, gathering VII/5O repeated), contemporary French red morocco gilt, boards with arms of August III of Poland, triple-fillet borders, gilt board edges and turn-ins, spines gilt in compartments, gilt morocco lettering-pieces in 2, others decorated with floral and star tools, gold-printed patterned endpapers, gilt edges (some light rubbing and scuffing, some minor chipping and bumping to extremities, some joints with superficial cracking, some discoloration and staining to endpapers). Provenance: Klemens Wenzeslaus, King August III of Poland (1696-1763, bookplates) -- '27[sic].v.35 A , Hb XI Vol' (inscription on upper pastedown of vol. I, possibly referring to the Heber copy, sale 26 May 1835 [i.e. A-B], lot 528) -- [comte Octave de Béhague (1826-1879) -- James de Rothschild (cf. Cohen-De Ricci)] -- traces of bookplates on front free endpapers -- vol. III with engraved cartouche enclosing painted silhouette pasted onto front free endpaper.

FIRST EDITION, LARGE-PAPER. THE DEDICATION SET FROM THE LIBRARY OF AUGUST III OF POLAND. Brunet I, 666; Cohen-De Ricci 113-114 (citing this set: 'en maroquin rouge aux armes de Frédéric-Auguste III de Pologne, 175 fr., vente Béhague (n. 1877), aujourd'hui collection James de Rothschild'). (11)

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