Catalogue raisonne des differens effets curieux et rares contenus dans le cabinet de feu M. le chevalier de La Roque : ce cabinet renferme une collection considerable de tableaux, de desseins, & d'estampes des meilleurs maîtres ; de figures de bronze & de marbre ... de porcelaines ... de pierres ... de coquilles, & enfin de nombre d'autres morceaux interressans de divers genres
Paris: Chez Jacques Barois ... et Pierre-Guillaume, 1745. Hardcover. 3/4 bluish cloth with plain board covers. Title-page with no frontis, xx, 258, 14 (2) pp. a few vignettes or printers devices, no illustrations. Small 4to. Fair+ (scuffs, smudges & wear to boards, edges & corners. front hinge completely cracked, detached from textblock; rebinding needed. textblock remains tight). Item #173728
Text is entirely in French. A scarce catalogue, last seen at auction in 2010 with stated bibliography references of Sinkankas 2363. Murray, Museums II, p. 254. Cicognara 4407. P. Mauries Cabinets of curiosities, Thames and Hudson, 2002, pp. 190-191. B. M .Stafford & F. Terpak, Devices of wonder, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, 2001, p. 169. A. McClellan Watteau' This is the sale of paintings, bronzes, porcelains, jewels, shells, drawings, prints, etc. LACKS a frontispiece engraved by Charles-Nicolas Cochin.
Price: $750.00