Kolbe & Fanning
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Cochran Patrick's Set of Kluyskens
Kluyskens, Hippolyte. DES HOMMES CÉLÈBRES DANS LES SCIENCES ET LES ARTS, ET DES MÉDAILLES QUI CONSACRENT LEUR SOUVENIR. Gand: Léonard Hebbelynck, 1859. Two volumes, complete. 8vo, contemporary matching dark blue quarter morocco with mottled sides; spines with four raised bands, ruled, lettered and decorated in gilt; marbled endpapers. viii, 416 + 647 pages; 71 engraved plates of portrait medals interspersed throughout the text of both volumes. A rather worn copy of Kluyskens's "Description de cinquante-trois médailles faites en l'honneur d'Albert Durer" (1881) laid in. Light wear to bindings; near fine. An important biographical dictionary and catalogue of prominent people in the arts and sciences who are depicted on medals. Rarely offered. Cumont 1165. Engel & Serrure 3259. Ex R.W. Cochran Patrick, with his armorial bookplate in each volume.
Kluyskens, Hippolyte. DES HOMMES CÉLÈBRES DANS LES SCIENCES ET LES ARTS, ET DES MÉDAILLES QUI CONSACRENT LEUR SOUVENIR. Gand: Léonard Hebbelynck, 1859. Two volumes, complete. 8vo, contemporary matching dark blue quarter morocco with mottled sides; spines with four raised bands, ruled, lettered and decorated in gilt; marbled endpapers. viii, 416 + 647 pages; 71 engraved plates of portrait medals interspersed throughout the text of both volumes. A rather worn copy of Kluyskens's "Description de cinquante-trois médailles faites en l'honneur d'Albert Durer" (1881) laid in. Light wear to bindings; near fine. An important biographical dictionary and catalogue of prominent people in the arts and sciences who are depicted on medals. Rarely offered. Cumont 1165. Engel & Serrure 3259. Ex R.W. Cochran Patrick, with his armorial bookplate in each volume.