Saugrain, Les curiositez de Paris, de Versailles, Paris, 1716, contemporary French calf gilt
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July 11, 03:42 PM GMT
Estimate
400 - 600 GBP
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SAUGRAIN, CLAUDE-MARIN. Les Curiositez de Paris, de Versailles, de Marly, de Vincennes, de S. Cloud, et des environs. Paris: Claude-Marin Saugrain, 1716
AN EARLY GUIDEBOOK TO PARIS, ATTRACTIVELY ILLUSTRATED with numerous woodcuts by Vincent Le Sueur. This work was published anonymously, with parts attributed to Georges-Louis Le Rouge and Jean-Aymar Piganiol, but its author is most likely the writer and bookseller Claude-Marin Saugrain himself.
12mo (167 x 102 mm). Roman type. collation: ã4 e2 A-2P8-4: 246 leaves. Headpieces of printer's flowers, engraved headpieces and printer's ornaments, numerous in-text woodcut illustrations by Vincent Le Sueur.
binding: Contemporary French calf (172 x 109 mm), spine with raised bands, gilt with open fleur-de-lys tool, stars and leafy tendrils, brown title label, marbled edges. (Rubbed.)
provenance: First two endleaves pasted together, obscuring several ownership inscriptions on a second endleaf, including the eighteenth-century inscription of "A. Baudet". acquisition: Purchased in 1962 on the Quays, Paris.
