[Rarebooks] FS: Gems or Royalty in the Louvre in 1886

[Joslin Hall Rare books]

Jacquemart, Jules & Barbet de Jouy.  "Les Gemmes et Joyaux de la Couronne
au Musée du Louvre"

Paris; Leon Techener: 1886.

Magnificent is hardly enough of a word to describe this sumptuous,
over-sized production, a survey of unique gemstone-constructed and
decorated objects from the Louvre, including the rock crystal Vase of
Eleanor of Aquitaine, the Royal mantle clasp of Saint Louis, the sardonyx
water pitcher of King Henry IV, the rock crystal dragon water vessel of
King Francis I, Charlemagne’s dueling sword, the agate Cup of King Charles
IX, and so on and on. The primary materials we see are rock crystal,
sardonyx, agate, jasper, porphyry, lapis lazuli, and jade, and the objects
are illustrated life-sized and printed on fine paper made specially for
the project by Marais and Sainte-Marie.

The descriptions were written by Barbet de Jouy, Conservator at the
Louvre, and engraved by the renowned Jules Jacquemart, whose style,
Sinkankas notes “[gives] convincing transparency to rock crystal objects”
and is “eminently satisfactory”. This was issued as two sets of 30 plates
each, and is complete here with both title pages. A spectacular, weighty,
beautiful book.

Hardcover. 16”x21.5”, x + 60 pages, plus 60 engraved plates with tissue
guards; period red quarter leather with raised bands and gilt title;
marbled boards and endpapers; covers with some scuffing and a little wear,
etc. One tissue guard torn. Bookplates of French architect Leon Decloux
and American diplomat Herbert Claiborne Pell, Jr. Magnificent.  [09927] 
$1500.00

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