Le temple de Gnide /. avec figures gravées par N. Le Mire, ... d'après les dessins de Ch. Eisen, le texte gravé par Droüet.
Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755)
Category
Books
Date
1772
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
NT 3009609
Summary
Bibliographic description
Nouvelle edition.. [3], vii, 104 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill. ;. 8vo. Accession no. 5497. Catalogued from Barber catalogue. Provenance: Bequest of James de Rothschild, 1957. Provenance: unidentified bookplate bearing a coat of arms charged with a crowing cockerel; also a cutting from an unidentified sale describing this item under no. 190. Morgand et Fatout; 1897 Waddesdon catalogue, p.56. Binding: eighteenth-century French red morocco; broad fillet with two thin ones on either side, ornament in corners. Flat spine with cloven pink tool and green lettering-piece. Pallet at foot of spine. Gilt edges with "bruised" pattern; yellow and red headbands and green silk marker. Leaf-marbled endleaves. Ascribed to a member of the le Monnier family.
Makers and roles
Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) Charles Dominique Joseph Eisen (Valenciennes 1720 - Brussels 1778) Le Mire, Noël, 1724-1801