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Auction 159  6 Mar 2021
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Lot 141

Starting price: 160 USD
Price realized: 750 USD
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Handsomely Bound Study on the Duviviers
Nocq, Henry. LES DUVIVIER: JEAN DUVIVIER 1687–1761. BENJAMIN DUVIVIER 1730–1819. ESSAI D'UN CATALOGUE DE LEURS OEUVRES, PRÉCÉDÉ D'UNE NOTICE BIOGRAPHIQUE ET BIBLIOGRAPHIQUE. Paris: Société de Propagation des Livres d'Art, 1911. 4to, full crushed blue morocco, sides bordered in gilt; spine with five raised bands, ruled, lettered and paneled in gilt; board edges and turn-ins ruled in gilt; original printed paper covers bound in. Fine frontispiece portrait; (8), 318, (2) pages; text illustrations; 16 additional fine plates, some tinted. Spine and front cover sunned, else a fine copy. A beautifully bound copy of this superbly illustrated work, of fundamental importance to collectors of French medals and jetons. Number 82 of 575 copies printed. Clain-Stefanelli 14568. Grierson 262. Modesti 1838: "La più celebre e documentata opera sulla famiglia di artisti d'origine belga, con speciale riguardo a Jean Duvivier ed al figlio Benjamin; esso furono I maggiori rappresentanti della medaglia neoclassica francese ed influenzarono anche medaglisti di altri paesi... Aggiungiamo anche l'estreme rarità, giacché fu edito in soli 500 esemplari riservati ai sotoscrittori e non è mai più stato ristampato." Ex Phiroze K. Randeria Library, with his engraved Zoroastrian-themed bookplate.
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