$671
Paris: Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, 1908. 4 vols. Complete. Portfolios, loose as issued in gilt-stamped marbled boards and cloth ties. With 268 mounted photographic plates, of which 12 are in color and the rest in sepia, illustrating the collection of Parisian architect, Georges Hoentschel, which was purchased by J. P. Morgan, who then gave the collection as a whole to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where it became the foundation of the museum's Department of European Decorative Arts. Lacking cloth spines to each vol.; edgewear to boards; minor warping to boards and plates; otherwise plates are clean. Together with a 1911 edition, in two portfolios, with 94 plates in color and gold. Paris: Librarie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, 1911. 2 vols. Portfolio, loose in quarter cloth over marbled board folders with cloth ties. Vol. 1: Ivories, orfevrerie religuse, pierres. Vol. 2: Emaux. Wear to boards; plates in fine condition. (6 portfolios total)
Auctioneer:
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Date:
2010-03-16
