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    Sale 9860

    FINE PRINTED BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS

    London, South Kensington

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    8 June 2004

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    Lot 26

    CLAUDE le Lorrain (1600-1682) [i.e. Claude Gelée]. Liber veritatis; or a Collection of Prints, after the Original Designs of Claude le Lorrain; in the Collection of...the Duke of Devonshire. London: Boydell, plates dated 1774-77. Volumes I & II only (of 3), 2° (434 x 274mm). Mezzotint portrait in volume I (lacking in vol. II) and 200 sepia mezzotint plates. (A few very light spots and stains.) Contemporary half calf (spines rubbed, signs of wear on covers).

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    GBP 2,390

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    GBP 1,500 - GBP 2,000

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    CLAUDE le Lorrain (1600-1682) [i.e. Claude Gelée]. Liber veritatis; or a Collection of Prints, after the Original Designs of Claude le Lorrain; in the Collection of...the Duke of Devonshire. London: Boydell, plates dated 1774-77. Volumes I & II only (of 3), 2° (434 x 274mm). Mezzotint portrait in volume I (lacking in vol. II) and 200 sepia mezzotint plates. (A few very light spots and stains.) Contemporary half calf (spines rubbed, signs of wear on covers).

    The third volume, containing one hundred plates engraved by Richard Earlom, and intended to accompany these two volumes, was not published until 1819. (2)

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