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LOT 1082

Jules La Barte - L'Émaillerie dans l'Antiquité et au Moyen Age

1856 A.D.

8 7/8 x 10 5/8 in. (1.4 kg, 22.5 x 27 cm).

Subtitle: Recherches sur la Peinture en Émail dans L'Antiquité et au Moyen Age - Paris, 1856, hardback with quarter-calf binding, marbled boards and endpapers, gold block title to spine, 239 pp, six coloured chromolith plates, fold-out engraving of architectural detail in Venice; stamped 'Bibliothèque de F. Halévy' and gummed bookplate with author's dedication 'à Monsieur Halevy hommages de l'auteur J. Labarte'. [No Reserve]

Provenance

Property of a London, UK, gentleman.

Footnotes

Jacques-François-Fromental-Élie Halévy (usually known as Fromental Halévy) (27 May 1799 – 17 March 1862), was a French composer in the mid-19th century. His given name Fromental (meaning 'oat grass') refers to his birth on the day (7 Prairial) dedicated to the same plant in the French Revolutionary calendar which was still operative at that time.

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LOT 1082

Jules La Barte - L'Émaillerie dans l'Antiquité et au Moyen Age

Sold for (Inc. bp): £98

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