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Letters patent for Pierre Adolphe Melchior
Maury from Paris, with great seal of Queen Victoria.
London, 28 october 1857.
2 large leaves printed on vellum and completed by hand (52 x 75 cm and 46 x 60 cm) with large engraved
decorative borders. Great seal of Queen Victoria (diam. 17 cm), depicting her enthroned on one side and
mounted on horseback on the other, white wax, captured in a round metal box, blue patent stamp (royal arms
of 2nd document cut, seal broken).
Est.
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100/ 120 €
Letters patent n° 2730 granted by the "Office of Commissioners of Patents for Inventions"
to Pierre Adolphe Melchior Maury, merchant from Paris, for his "improvements in cutting
the pile of velvets and other pile fabrics". Important document from the Age of the Industrial
Revolution.
¶ Brevet d'invention à P.A.M. Maury de Paris pour ses améliorations techniques pour la coupe du
velours et autres textiles. 2 feuilles de vélin mi-imprimées, mi-écrites avec grandes bordures décoratives
imprimées, grand cachet de cire blanche figurant la Reine Victoria (armoiries royales découpées au 2e
feuillet, sceau cassé).
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227 – (Antiquité)
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TACITUS, PubliusCornelius.- Le historie auguste. Novellamente
fatte Italiane.
Vinegia, Vincenzo Vaugris, 1544.
In-8°: 422-[1] lvs (last (blank?) lf. missing, some margins repaired, marginal tears and dampstains, wormholes
in the 3 last lvs).
Case binding: beige paper, flat spine (spine and joints covered with white stained paper, flyleaves lacking).
Est.
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120/ 150 €
First edition of the translation
of the "Annales" and the "Historiae". Some ornemental
initial letters, printer's marks on the title-page and the last leaf.
# Adams T-45 ; # STC Italy 654 ; # USTC 857891 ; # not in Mortimer, Machiels, Soltész.
▲ Provenance : order of the Hospital of Saint Matthew at Wratislava (handwritten mention).
¶ Édition originale de la traduction des Annales et des Histoires. Cartonnage de papier beige (dernier f.
(blanc?) manquant, qqs marges restaurées, mouill. marginales, dos et mors couverts d'un papier blanc
taché).
228 – (Belgique & Pays-Bas)
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Annales sive Historiae rerum Belgicarum [...].
Francofurti ad Moenium [Frankfurt am Main], expensis Sigismundi Feyerabendii
(apud Georgium Corvinum, impensis Sigismundii Feyrabendii), 1580.
2 parts in 1 vol. in-f°: [8]-427-[21], 187 pp. (last blank lf. missing, dampstains throughout, foxing, stains, first
lvs partly unbound, 2 tears in the text without lack, some contemporary handwritten notes or underlinings in
the margins, marginal wormholes in the end, some margins repaired).
Contemporary binding: vellum with visible sewing and flaps, ribbed spine, red edges (upper turn in repaired,
stains, contemporary handwritten index on the upper flyleaf).
Est.
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200/ 250 €
First edition
of this compilation under the supervision of Sigismund Feyerabend (1528-
1590). With contributions of Jacob de Meyere and Jacques Marchant on Flanders,
Adriaan Van Baerland on Brabant, Gerard Geldenhauer on Holland, a commentary of