Live auction - Lot 267
With letterpress texts
La vie de la Mère de Dieu représentée par des emblèmes.
CALLOT, Jacques
Hammer price: €
150
€ 200 / 300
Live bidding (Drouot*) Live bidding (Invaluable*)Bidding is closed
Lot description
26 etchings, ca. 6,1 x 8,2 cm (etching), ca. 14,3 x 10,8 cm (sheet), Latin title in letterpress above, Latin and French texts in letterpress below (framing line in brown ink around etchings, few spots, few light stains, 1 hole, 1 water stain), 3 additional sheets with letterpress texts: "ODE A LA / TOUTE-PUISSANTE / ET INCOMPARABLE VIERGE / MARIE MERE DE DIEU. / [...]" (spotted).
Good impressions with wide margins. Laid down on laid paper (27,8 x 21,6 cm) with large frames in brown ink and red watercolour, mounted in 19th-c. half vellum, marbled paper on covers, spine with gold-stamped ornaments, marbled endpapers,
26 prints (only without title plate, Lieure 626) of a series of emblems. 1st edition with letterpress texts. All 1st state (of 2) before signature and numbering.
Ref. Lieure 626-652.
Prov. Jean Esteve (ex-libris).