![BINDING -- COSTE, Hilarion de. Les Eloges de nos rois, et des enfants de France. Paris: Sebastien Cramoisy, 1643. 4° (234 x 171mm). Title in red and black. Contemporary red morocco gilt borders and cyphers in center of both covers, gilt spine (lightly wear at extremities, small staines). Provenance: Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580-1637; binding) -- Henry Yates Thompson (1838-1929; bookplate) -- Edward Rahir (bookplate, 1898) -- Thore Virgin, 1911 (bookplate) -- [Rolf Wistrand].](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2009/CSK/2009_CSK_05822_0188_000(115015).jpg?w=1)
BINDING -- COSTE, Hilarion de. Les Eloges de nos rois, et des enfants de France. Paris: Sebastien Cramoisy, 1643. 4° (234 x 171mm). Title in red and black. Contemporary red morocco gilt borders and cyphers in center of both covers, gilt spine (lightly wear at extremities, small staines). Provenance: Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580-1637; binding) -- Henry Yates Thompson (1838-1929; bookplate) -- Edward Rahir (bookplate, 1898) -- Thore Virgin, 1911 (bookplate) -- [Rolf Wistrand].
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BINDING -- COSTE, Hilarion de. Les Eloges de nos rois, et des enfants de France. Paris: Sebastien Cramoisy, 1643. 4° (234 x 171mm). Title in red and black. Contemporary red morocco gilt borders and cyphers in center of both covers, gilt spine (lightly wear at extremities, small staines). Provenance: Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580-1637; binding) -- Henry Yates Thompson (1838-1929; bookplate) -- Edward Rahir (bookplate, 1898) -- Thore Virgin, 1911 (bookplate) -- [Rolf Wistrand].
THE PEIRESC-YATES THOMPSON-RAHIR COPY. Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc was a renowned astronomer and patron of science, whose books are adorned by his distinctive Greek cypher; Yates Thompson was considered the greatest manuscript collector of his generation; and Edward Rahir's collection was legendary, dispersed in a series of sales in 1931.
THE PEIRESC-YATES THOMPSON-RAHIR COPY. Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc was a renowned astronomer and patron of science, whose books are adorned by his distinctive Greek cypher; Yates Thompson was considered the greatest manuscript collector of his generation; and Edward Rahir's collection was legendary, dispersed in a series of sales in 1931.
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