[Rarebooks] FS: Marchand's history of printing. The Hague: 1740

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(PRINTING HISTORY) [Marchand, Prosper]. HISTOIRE DE L'ORIGINE ET DES PREMIERS PROGRES DE L'IMPRIMERIE. La Haye (The Hague): Le Veuve Le Vier et Pierre Paupie. 1740. 4to. 2 parts in 1. xii,118;152pp. Title printed in red & black with an engraved vignette. Copper engraved allegorical frontispiece. Modern calf spine, gilt, with red morocco label, over old boards, somewhat worn & soiled. Title page somewhat soiled. The lower corner of the title page, as well as the corner of the title of the second part, and final leaf of text, with the old rubber stamp of "The Allan Library." Verso of title with the rubber stamp of C. P. C. Schoenmann, the 19th century author on printing history.	$850.00 (trade discount allowed)
See Bigmore & Wyman Vol. II, p. 22-23, for a long discussion.


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