Voyage de Sophie en Prusse. Traduit de l'Allemand, sur la douzième édition, par P.B. Lamare. Avec figures.
Johann Timotheus Hermes (1738-1821)
Category
Books
Date
circa 1800
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3222583
Summary
Bibliographic description
3 v., plates : ill. ; 8vo. (20cm). Pencil mark "L. D1"; ink mark "4.D". Provenance: Late eighteenth or early nineteenth-century monogram bookplate, lettered "FL" set underneath an earl's coronet within an elongated octagonal frame [poss. Lady Frances Pratt (ca. 1751-1833), dau. of Charles Pratt, 1st Earl of Camden, and 2nd wife of Robert Stewart (from 1775), cr. 1st Earl of Londonderry in 1796, cr. 1st Marquess of Londonderry in 1816]. Binding: Nineteenth-century half red morocco on marbled paper over boards. Paper has been recycled from a work in English, showing through the dye. Sewn on recessed cords, green leather spine labels lettered in gilt. Green edges.
Makers and roles
Johann Timotheus Hermes (1738-1821) Lamare, Pierre-Bernard