Sale 1749
New York
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28 November 2006
Price realised
USD 9,600
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This lot is offered without a reserve
Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer (1636-1699) Livre de Toutes Sortes de Fleurs d'Apres Nature: Eight Plates eight copper plate engravings with handcoloring with watercolor and gouache, circa 1660, on laid papers, published in Paris, all with margins, all with surface soiling and pale light-staining, all with scattered staining and scattered foxing, all with handling-creases, not examined out of the frames largest P. 16 x 12 in. (406 x 305 mm.) largest overall 25½ x 21½ in. (648 x 546 mm.) (8)
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Ann Kendall Richards, Inc., New York
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