24 autograph letters, in French (23) and Italian (1), from Magdelaine Plantin (Paris) and her husband(s) Gilles Beys and Adrien Perier, and their relatives, to Jan and Balthasar Moretus (Antwerp), 1573-1641.
Estimation :
3000 / 5000
Adjudication :
8000 €
Description
Important unpublished correspondence on business and family matters from the Paris Officina Plantiniana with Chr. Plantin’s collaborator and successor Jan Moretus (and Jan’s son Balthasar). List (in order of the 19th-c. purple numbering in left top corner): 1a. Magdelaine Plantin, 1598 (2); 1b. Adrien Perier & M. Plantin, 1598. - 2a. Gilles Beys, 1573 (in Italian); 2b. G. Beys, 1619 (?); 2c. G. Beys, 1578. - 3a-d. Adrien Perier, 1600 (1) – 1601 (3). - 4a-b. Christofle Beys to Balthasar Moretus, 1641. - 5a. G. Beys to B. Moretus, 1617; 5b-c. Idem, 1619 (2, 1 with Balthasar’s draft answer). - 6a-b. Marguerite Beys to Jan Moretus, 1600-1601. - 7a-b Pierre Pautonnier (husband of Marguerite Beys) to Balthasar Moretus, 1616 (and "n.d."). - 8a-b. Jeremie Perier to Jan Moretus, 1596, 1599. - 9a. Olivier de Varennes (husband of Marie Beys) to Jan Moretus, 1600; 9b. Idem to Balthasar Moretus, 1611. - 10. Adrian Beys to Jan Moretus, 1600.
