gigi
New Aurelian
Posts: 7
Country: France
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Post by gigi on Feb 3, 2015 14:17:21 GMT
Just as an answer to Michel's wish, here is a splendid scarce plate from the fourth supplement to a very famous book : Ernst J.J. , Engramelle J. L. Fl. [and coll], 1779-1793. Papillons d'Europe peints d'après nature. I like very much this work and the way these very esthetic plates are made, only by hand It has to be known that these 8 plates of the last supplement where discovered in an antiquarian's shop by R. Homberg, only in 1918! They have never been sent before to suscribers when the book was edited. And among them, plate VI was missing. I've been looking for it during a long time and recently, at least I found one in Belgium. It seems after consulting many libraries, bookshop and private collections in America and Europe, only 2 (perhaps 3) plates now still exist ! That's to say even for books edited about 230 years before, we still have to learn and discover interesting things A paper about this extremely scarce plate and this book (through 80 copies consulted) will be published very soon, but in French!
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Post by mygos on Feb 3, 2015 14:43:25 GMT
Thank you Michel for sharing, and I now know why Gigi This is a book I do not have in my collection yet ! I am more on tropical butterflies, but may be one day if I find a nice one in a contemporary binding ? I look forward your paper ! A+, Michel
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Post by wollastoni on Feb 4, 2015 16:26:54 GMT
Very interesting, thank you for sharing it !
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Post by mygos on Oct 10, 2018 18:33:45 GMT
Thank you Michel for sharing, and I now know why Gigi This is a book I do not have in my collection yet ! I am more on tropical butterflies, but may be one day if I find a nice one in a contemporary binding ? I look forward your paper ! A+, Michel I just purchased a copy of this rare work, but not in a contemporary binding as I was hoping but in an ordinary later cloth binding, but at a much lower price This enable me to purchase the later plates discovered in 1918 and print the scarce plate from gigi and then bring it to my binder to produce a pastiche binding of the XVIII th century It should give me a very nice complete copy of this beautiful book A+, Michel
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Post by mygos on Nov 30, 2019 12:01:32 GMT
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Post by jshuey on Nov 30, 2019 14:37:23 GMT
Micheal,
That binding cost a couple Euros.....
j
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Post by mygos on Nov 30, 2019 15:04:15 GMT
Micheal, That binding cost a couple Euros..... j You are right jshuey, a small fortune A+, Michel
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Post by nomad on Nov 30, 2019 17:50:13 GMT
That was indeed a long wait, but a superb binding of your rare work.
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Post by mygos on Nov 30, 2019 21:27:10 GMT
That was indeed a long wait, but a superb binding of your rare work. Thank you Peter A+, Michel
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