17th Sep, 2024 10:00
The September Auctions 2024
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Dufour (Philippe Sylvestre) Traitez nouveaux & curieux du café, du thé et du chocolate
Dufour (Philippe Sylvestre, 1622-1687) Traitez Nouveaux & Curieux du Café, du Thé et du Chocolate Ouvrage egalement necessaire aux Medicins, & a tous ceux qui aiment leur sante, La Haye (The Hague): Adrian Moetjens, 1685, 12mo, 18th century vellum with handwritten ink title to spine, inscribed in ink 'M. Downshire' (Mary Hill, Marchioness of Downshire and suo jure Baroness Sandys (1764-1836)); frontispiece, dedication to Chevalier Valon, 3 plates, index and errata
Provenance:Ombersley Court, Worcestershire
Footnote:First complete edition, illustrated with plates after Mathieu Ogier. Published the same year in Lyon and The Hague, before being translated into English and Latin.
Chorley’s Auctioneers is to offer The Ombersley Court Library collected by the English aristocratic family of Sandys across five centuries.
Proceeds of the sale will will be donated to the Hartlebury Castle Preservation Trust (Charity 1127871).
Hartlebury Castle is a historic Worcestershire estate first given to Bishop Aelhun in 855AD. Home of the Bishops of Worcester until 2007. it has a longstanding connection with the Sandys family throughout its history.
Sold for £850
Dufour (Philippe Sylvestre, 1622-1687) Traitez Nouveaux & Curieux du Café, du Thé et du Chocolate Ouvrage egalement necessaire aux Medicins, & a tous ceux qui aiment leur sante, La Haye (The Hague): Adrian Moetjens, 1685, 12mo, 18th century vellum with handwritten ink title to spine, inscribed in ink 'M. Downshire' (Mary Hill, Marchioness of Downshire and suo jure Baroness Sandys (1764-1836)); frontispiece, dedication to Chevalier Valon, 3 plates, index and errata
Ombersley Court, Worcestershire
First complete edition, illustrated with plates after Mathieu Ogier. Published the same year in Lyon and The Hague, before being translated into English and Latin.
THE OMBERSLEY COURT LIBRARY
Chorley’s Auctioneers is to offer The Ombersley Court Library collected by the English aristocratic family of Sandys across five centuries.
Proceeds of the sale will will be donated to the Hartlebury Castle Preservation Trust (Charity 1127871).
Hartlebury Castle is a historic Worcestershire estate first given to Bishop Aelhun in 855AD. Home of the Bishops of Worcester until 2007. it has a longstanding connection with the Sandys family throughout its history.
18th century binding, very light edgewear but very good, inked title to spine a little smudged, front and back pastedown detaching but neatly so, pencil shelf mark to front endpaper, pages a little toned, two blank back endpapers with slight tear to page edge without loss
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