Lot n° 1390

Printing - Leiden - Proeve der drukkerye, nu laatst gebruikt bij Cornelis Heyligert, bestaande in vijf schoone druk-perssen, als mede verscheiden soorten van Arabische (...) en andere letteren, benevens verdere gereedschappen, tot eene complete...

Estimation : 10000 / 10000
Adjudication : Invendu
Description
drukkerije behoorende. Al hetwelk verkocht zal worden te Leyden (...) op dingsdag den 27 february 1792 (...) door den Procureur Thomas van Bergen (...).
Leiden, D. de Mortier & son, J.J. Thyssens, 1792
4to, cont. quarter roan (sl. rubbed), spine on 3 raised bands, kept in a nice wooden box with gilt spine and calf covers with gilt and wooden ornaments, [64] ff. (a few ff. cut short at bottom just shaving borders of ornaments). Very nice, well-preserved copy. The only complete copy of the inventory of the shop of the Leiden bookseller, publisher and printer Cornelis Heyligert, active 1767-1790 (“in Sint Pieters Choorsteeg op de hoek van de Langebrugge”). It lists names and weights of types, and numbers of ornaments in stock, and illustrates a specimen of each. Printed on recto only.
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