The spring bouquet or collection of the most... - Lot 1 - Giquello

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The spring bouquet or collection of the most... - Lot 1 - Giquello
The spring bouquet or collection of the most beautiful flowers of this time Autun, Blaise Simonnot, 1662 VERY RARE. ONLY ONE OTHER COPY IS KNOWN TODAY, KEPT IN A PUBLIC INSTITUTION. IMPECCABLE LINE OF PROVENANCE: GEORGE SPENCER, MARQUESS OF BLANDFORD, ACQUIRED BY RICHARD HEBER. THE COPY LATER JOINED THE COLLECTIONS OF CHARLES NODIER, MAXIMILIEN DE CLINCHAMP, MARQUIS DE GANAY AND BERNARD MALLE In-16 (110 x 64mm). Engraved vignette on the title page and finial COLLATION : A-D8 : 32 ff. (without the last blank) ILLUSTRATION : 28 woodcut vignettes of flowers Eighteenth century binding. Olive green morocco, gilt decoration, framed with gilt filets, long spine decorated, vertical titling stamped on a piece of red morocco, gilt edges. Box PROVENANCE: "ex-libris gersaim 13 livres" (inscription in ink on the back of the endpaper) -- Catalogue de la bibliothèque de feu M**, Avignon, chez Mérande et Dubié, 1778, p. 111: "mar. vert, doré sur tranche fileté sur le plat" -- George Spencer-Churchill, Marquess of Blandford, fifth Duke of Marlborough (1766-1740; his sale, at White Knights, near Reading, June 7, 1819, no. 517: "wood cuts, green morocco". S. de Ricci states, about this sale: "although the sale was brilliantly attended... the result was disappointing") -- Richard Heber (1774-1833?; stamp surmounted by an autograph inscription in ink mentioning the place of acquisition, the name of the broker and the price: "Wh[ite] Kn[ights] 517. [Robert] Triphook July 1819 [£]15"; his sale, London, 1834, no. 895, described in blue morocco, sold for £6) -- Charles Nodier (1780-1844; bookplate; his sale, Paris, Techener, 1844, no. 1062: "a very rare booklet which seems to have escaped until now the research of the most learned and exact bibliographers. I do not find it indicated in any catalog, and I have only ever met this nice copy which comes from the Richard Heber library where one can say that everything was found") -- Maximilien-Louis de Clinchamp (1817-1857; his sale, Paris, Techener, 1860, no. 530: "fig., green mar., wires, gilt tr. (Rel. anc.). Ex. R. Heber et Nodier") - Félix Solar (Paris, 1860, n° 2207 : "copy of the library of Ch. Nodier and Rich. Heber; small volume of great rarity") -- Charles Alexandre, marquis de Ganay (1803-1881; his sale, May 12, 1881, n° 125, sold for 52 francs; bookplate) - Charles Porquet, bookseller (1823-1902) -- Bernard Malle (stamp) Only one other copy is known today, the one kept in the Dijon Library (call number L 51711). Richard Heber's collection included more than 150,000 volumes, filling two houses in London, one in Hodnet, one in Oxford, one in Ghent and one in Paris. He often kept several copies of the same book. He is credited with the saying, "No gentleman can be without three copies of a book: one for show, one for use, and one for borrowers." He certainly did not own three copies of this book. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Seymour-de Ricci, pp. 77-78 (George Spencer) and p. 102 (Richard Heber) -- Brunet, VI, Tables méthodiques, col. 14128, who does not cite any copies
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