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Sale 5183 - Books & Manuscripts
Feb 18, 2021 5:00AM ET
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[Art] Rubens, Peter Paul Theorie de la figure humaine, consideree dans ses principes, soit en repos ou en mouvement...

Paris: Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1773. First edition. 4to. xi, (i), 55, (1) pp. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece and 44 engraved plates by Pierre Aveline after drawings by Rubens. Three-quarter tan calf over marbled paper-covered boards, paper spine label, extremities rubbed and worn, boards rubbed; all edges trimmed; old ownership signature on front free endpaper; dampstaining in top gutter of recto and verso of frontispiece and recto of half-title; scattered minor spotting and soiling to text and plates; book-plate on front paste-down; book-plate of English art historian, Rubens scholar, and director of the The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Michael Jaffe, on front paste-down. Brunet IV, 1442.

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