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Description : Le Cabinet de la Bibliotheque de Sainte Genevieve. 2 engraved additional titles, portrait, 45 plates, including 5 double-page. Folio, 438x284 mm, contemporary mottled calf gilt with vellum tips, expertly rebacked retaining original backstrip. WIDE-MARGINED COPY. Paris: Antoine Dezallier, 1692 FIRST EDITION of the catalogue of a cabinet of curiosities assembled by Du Molinet to complement the library at the Abbey of Sainte Genevieve in Paris, many of the objects came from the collections of the scientist Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580-1637). The cabinet at Ste. Genevieve was rich in coins, medals and plaques, Greek and Roman sacrificial vessels, lamps, utensils, weights and measures, and Egyptian antiquities... The published catalogue... portrays an elegant, well-proportioned collection formed by a taste for order, clarity and sound learning, an abhorrence of the bizarre, and an indifference to gratuitous marvels -- William Schupbach, Some Cabinets of Curiosities, in Impey & MacGregor, editors, The Origin of Museums (1986), page 173-74. Hofer, Baroque Book Illustration 61 (an interesting early illustrated museum catalogue), Nissen ZBI 2861.
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About the lot N° 115 Title : Du Molinet, Claude, Period : 1692 Size : Folio, 438x284 mm Condition report : Wide-margined copy Swann Auction Galleries, auctioneer, New York, NYIt's free to register now to view! Sale title : Bibliography Books About Books Sale date : 23 Mar 1995It's free to register now to view! Sale Reference : Live Sale
