Book on China by Hager in fine binding
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BINDING. CHINA. HAGER, JOSEPH. Panthéon Chinois, ou parallele entre le culte religieux des grecs et celui des chinois, avec de nouvelles preuves que la Chine a été connue des grecs, et que les sérès des auteurs classiques ont été des chinois. Paris (de l´Imprimerie de P. Didot l´aine) 1806.
4:o (c. 310x230 mm.). (9), x-xxxviii, (2), (1)-175, (1 blank) pp. 1 large folding engraved plate with grey wash.
Contemporary green calf, only slightly worn, the covers with three gilt borders, with gilt guirlandes or meander decorations, both boards gilt stamped with the initials "EA" under Royal Crown (Eugene de Beauharnias and his wife), inner dentelles, richly gilt spine with red label, all edges gilt. Some foxing. Bookplate of J. L. du Temple de Rougemont.
Eugène Rose de Beauharnais (1781-1824), French general in the Napoleonic Wars and Viceroy of Italy, son of Josephine Tascher de la Pagerie, later wife of Napoleon and Empress of the French. Eugene de Beauharnais married Princess Augusta Amelia of Bavaria (1788-1851), daughter of Maximilian I of Bavaria. Their oldest daughter, Josephine of Leuchtenburg (1807-1876) was married to the Swedish Crown Prince, later king Oscar I.
See Zurich sale catalogue of Braus-Riggenbach / Ulrico Hoepli, May 23-24, 1935, Bibliothéque Eugène de Beauharnais.
From the library of Swedish antiquarian bookdealer Björn Löwendahl (1941-2013).
Auktionsnummer:
6146
Datum:
2016-12-20