Author: ARETIN Johann Adam Baron von ( ) - François BRULLIOT :
Title: Catalogue raisonné des estampes du cabinet de feu Mr. Le Bar[on] d'Aretin. Tome Premier contenant L'école Allemande et celle des Pays-Bas. Tome Second contenant les Écoles Italienne, Française et Anglaise. (2 vols).
Description: 11. Munich ( München ), 1827, de l'imprimerie de Joseph Rösl, 2 vols in-8°, (VI) pp + 450 pp + (1)(errata); (II) pp + 336 pp + (1)(errata); bound in uniform marbled boards, red leather title label on spine. Fine copy. The first copy contains all the prices in a neat handwriting. The second volume doesn't have prices. Catalogue of the rich print collection of Baron von Aretin, a Bavarian politician. The collection was offered for sale en bloc on the base of this catalogue printed in 1827. The first part (using the first volume as auction catalogue) sold in the summer of 1830 at auction. The second part went on the 16th of May 1831and following days. The second part of the catalogue has a tipped-on printed label on the title indicating this second sale.The collection comprised prints from the German school (2030) and Dutch school (2373) in the first volume and Italian (2465), French (1149) and English (91) schools in the second volume; 124 lots of books and reference are to be found at the end. .

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