Rare work by Freudeberg and Moreau Le Jeune, Suite d’estampes pour servir à l’histoire des mœurs et du costume des françois.

(FREUDEBERG, SIGISMOND [FREUDENBERGER] - MOREAU LE JEUNE, JEAN-MICHEL). Première, seconde et troisième] Suite d’estampes pour servir à l’histoire des mœurs et du costume des François dans le dix-huitième siècle. Paris, Prault, 1775, 1777 et 1783. 3 parts in one volume (complete).

Large folio (490x320 mm.). 36 engraved plates by Freudeberg and Moreau le Jeune, all plates numbered (complete, 12 in each part; 2nd and 3rd part with the lettres A. D. P. R. (avec privlège du roi) below the titles; all plates with tissue-gards; 1 plate [no 12, Le Coucher] in the first part with dampstains to upper margin, otherwise only minor foxing, mostly to margins).
Plates in the first part engraved by Romanet, Voyez Vaine, Lingee, Ingoufi Maleuvre, Duclos and Bosse, the second and third with plates engraved by Martini, Trière, Helman, Baquoy, Guttenberg, Delaunay le jeune, Halbou, Romanet, Camligue, Dambrun, Thomas, Patas, Malebeste and Delignon.
Size for plates c. 405x310 mm. (platemark).
Title leaves with some slight foxing to margins, slight browning. Last text page with browning to outer margins.
Contemporary full calf binding, inner doublures and endpapers of fine marbled papers, partly worn and rubbed, richly gilt spine in compartments, red title label, some wear and minor damages to lower and upper edge, red edges. Small handwritten note, Fånöö bibliothek, on the first free endpaper.

Collation: (2), 3, (12); (2), 4, (12); (2), (18) pp.

Rare work, especially complete, with fine plates after Freudeberg and Moreau Le Jeune , one of the most famous book illustrators and engravers in France at this period.

Colas, 1118-1120; Cohen, 352-362.
Carlander IV s. 587. The history of the Fånö estate can be tracked back to 1248 and the Fånöö family and subsequently owned by many of Sweden's leading noble families. Per Adolf Tamm bought it in 1839 and his grandson Hugo had the current manor built the years 1873-76 where he brought together a library, rich in plateworks.

According to a note on a paper in the volume, the work was bought by Swedish art historian Karl Asplund (1890 – 1978) from Gimo Österby library.

Provenance: Carl-Bertel Nathhorst (1907-1985), Swedish business leader.

See catalogue text.

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