Entretiens de Ciceron sur la Nature des Dieux. Tome premier[-troisiéme].
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1721
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3095505
Summary
Bibliographic description
3 v. ; 12mo. Running number: 5417. Provenance: armorial binding of Karl Heinrich, Graf von Hoym (1694-1736) (Charles Henri, Comte d’Hoym), book collector and ambassador in Paris of Augustus II, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland. Lot 841* in Hoym library sale catalogue 'Catalogus librorum bibliothecae illustrissimi viri Caroli Henrici comitis de Hoym ...' (Paris, 1738). Bought by Sir Richard Ellys for 3 livres 1 sous according to his priced copy of the sale catalogue. Manuscript inscription on vol. 1 front fly-leaf: "M. 3. vol." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Binding: eighteenth-century polished calf, armorial; gilt double and single fillet border; gilt armorial centrepiece stamp of the arms of Karl Heinrich, Graf von Hoym (1694-1736) (Charles Henri, Comte d’Hoym), Minister Plenipotentiary to France from Augustus II of Poland (Boyet and Du Seuil were Hoym’s binders); gilt roll pattern on board edges and turn-ins; gold-tooled spine, with repeated decorative stamps, and title and vol. number on green morocco labels. Red burnished edges. Comb-marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Jean Bouhier (1673-1746) Pierre-Joseph Thoulier, abbé d'Olivet (1682-1768)