Sold for:
$1,560
$1,560
St. Memin, Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret, de (1770-1852) The St.-Memin Collection of Portraits, Consisting of Seven Hundred and Sixty Medallion Portraits . New York: Dexter, 1862. Folio, illustrated with sixty-three leaves of reproduced profile portraits in rondelles, photographs taken from proof impressions of St. Memin's copper plates, 1793-1814; each illustration mounted on the sheet, as originally issued; bound in full textured green morocco, stamped in blind and gilt; faded and rubbed, with bumped corners and worn joints, boards a bit loose, joints starting, a.e.g.; the text water stained, with foxing to plates, 15 x 11 1/2 in.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2013-11-17
