Le Cabinet du Duc d'Aumont: A facsimile reprint of the 1870 edition recording the auction of 1782
NY: Acanthus Books, 1986. Reprint, limited edition, No. 511 of 520 copies. Hardcover. Navy cloth/boards, gilt spine lettering; [xxvii], [5], [xxxii] 203 p.; 34 bw plates. NF but for a small bump to upper front corner of cover. Although not stated, this copy was from the personal library of the series editor, Edgar Munhall. Item #127811
From the introduction: Some seven months after his death, a sale of the fifth Duc d'Aumont's collection took place at the magnificent town house he rented on the Place Louis XV. The architectural interest and conspicuous location of the building, the aristocratic celebrity of its late tenant, as well as the exotic novelty of much of the collection, consisting almost entirely of what is now called decorative arts, accounted for the sensation aroused among a wide spectrum of Parisian society by this event. From an edition of 520 copies, of which 500 numbered copies were for sale. {Acanthus Reprint Series of Historical Auction Catalogues, France: Volume I).
OCLC: 226938157
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