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2000 · Chartres
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Chartres: Librairie Sourget, 2000. cloth, dust jacket. Sourget, Patrick et Élisabeth. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. (viii), 616+(1) pages. Sumptuously produced presentation copy of catalogue XXI. Includes 251 entries on all topics, accompanied by detailed descriptions, photos of the beautifully-bound books and illustrations from them, most being full-page and in lavish color. First offering is a Parisian manuscript on vellum in gothic calligraphy, (c. 1280), decorated with beautiful "C" and "A" illuminated initials. Later entries portray handsome watercolor prints of fish species from Marcus Elieser Bloch's Ichtyologie, ou Histoire Naturelle, Générale etParticulière des Poissons (1785 - 1788). Also striking botanical prints from Pierre-Joseph Redouté, in both Les Jardins de la Malmaison, (1803 - 1805) and from Traité des Arbres et Arbustes (1852). Several engraved maps in beautiful color from Abraham Ortelius's 1584 atlas, printed in Antwerp by Plantin. (Inventory #: 65534)