[MARIETTE, Pierre-Jean]. BASAN, Pierre-François - Lot 90

[MARIETTE, Pierre-Jean]. BASAN, Pierre-François Catalog raisonné des différents objets de curiosités dans les sciences et les arts qui composaient le Cabinet de feu Mr Mariette, Contrôleur général de la Grande Chancellerie de France, honoraire Amateur de l'Académie R[oya]le de Peinture, et de celle de Florence Paris, chez l'Auteur, 1775 WITH AN ORIGINAL DRAWING BY STEFANO DELLA BELLA. A PRECIOUS AND SUPERB COPY IN CONTEMPORARY MOROCCO, ON LARGE PAPER, WITH THE TITLE PAGE AND FRONTISPIECE HEIGHTENED IN THE PERIOD IN A VERY FINE COLORING WITH TRACES OF SILVER. EXEMPLAIRE DE FRÉDÉRIC REISET, PUIS DU COMTE D'ARMAILLÉ ORIGINAL EDITION In-8 (210 x 125 mm). Woodcut frame and vignette on title page. Woodcut headbands. COLLATION : 1 f. n. ch., xvi pp., 418 pp. 4 pp. ILLUSTRATION: frontispiece designed by Charles-Nicolas Cochin and engraved by Pierre-Philippe Choffard, 4 plates including 3 fold-outs engraved by Mariette himself, bound after page 195. ADDED ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATION: ORIGINAL DRAWING by Stefano Della Bella, in gray wash, brown ink and red chalk, placed in the frontispiece (178 x 121mm). The drawing was engraved: Devesme 942 ORNAMENTATION: SUPERB COLORIS D'ÉPOQUE with silver highlights delicately applied to the engraved frontispiece and title page. ANNOTATIONS: handwritten prices in red ink, with mentions of bidders or successful bidders in brown ink FOLLOWING: 4-page catalog of two print sales held in 1773, printed by Prault in 1774. CONTEMPORARY BINDING. Red morocco, gilt decoration, framed fillets, ribbed spine with the words pushed in gold letters in two boxes: "Catalogue de Mariette avec les prix et enlum[iné]". PROVENANCE OF THE COPY: Frédéric Reiset (1815-1891, former director of the Musées nationaux; figure on the title; Paris, April 5, 1879 and following days, no. 935, 415 francs, the drawing was then correctly catalogued as by Della Bella. It was Frédéric Reiset who added the drawing -- Pierre Deschamps (1821-1906, bibliographer, small donkey placed as a bookplate on one of the endpapers, numerous notes in his hand in brown ink, the last of which (p. 418) signed with his initials) -- Louis de La Forest, comte d'Armaillé (1823-1882; armorial bookplate) -- by descent, his daughter Pauline de Broglie then his granddaughter Albertine wife of Pierre Louis François de Luppé, marquis de La Grange et de Beaurepaire (1866-1934, chartist; Paris, November 18, 2015, no. 32) PROVENANCE OF THE DRAWING: A. Mouriau (first half of the 19th century), former captain in the service of Belgium, collector of antique drawings (Lugt L.1853), small stamp at the bottom of the drawing Small crack at the fold of one of the engravings BIBLIOGRAPHY : Grolier Club 239 WEBOGRAPHY: for the Frédéric Reiset sale catalog: https://archive.org/details/cataloguedesliv00reisgoog/page/n9/mode/2up -- copy kept at the Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1512370z Many thanks to Mr. Nicolas Schwed for his help in authenticating Stefano Della Bella's drawing.