Author: Le Jolle, Pierre de, author; Jean-Claude Bozérian, book binder
Title: Description de la Ville D'Amsterdam En Vers Burlesques. Selon la Visite de Six Jours D'Une Semaine. First Edition
Description: Amsterdam,: Chés Jaques Le Curieux [i.e. Elsevier], A L'an 1666. 12mo, 7.5 x 13cm. Gilt tooled roan binding with lozenges. See detailed binding description below in French. Physical Description: [14], 317, [3] p. ; 14 cm. (12mo) OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:OCLC Number / Unique Identifier: 12101165.. Jean-Claude Bozérian and his younger brother, François Bozérian, were the leading binders of the First Empire, and both worked for Napoleon. The elder Bozérian won the bookbinding medal of the Paris 1801 exhibition, and was a busy publisher and bookseller as well. See R. Devauchelle, La reliure en France II (1960), 113-119; and P. Culot, Jean-Claude Bozérian (Speeckaert, 1979). "This town guide is dedicated to the lowest of the locals--canal and street cleaners. Vignettes of fraudsters, shoemakers, medical quacks, grifters, butchers and heated domestic disputes liven the six one-day walking itineries. They describe private and public art collections, architecture, banks, monuments, administrative buildings (i.a. we go room by room through City Hall), military installations, the stock exchange, fish market, poor and leper hospitals, jails, a psychiatric ward, East and West India Companies, churches of all denominations, a library (with a six-page list of popular novels and tales), bridges, dockyards, private houses, Blaeu's printing plant and retail shop, vessels of every type, natural history cabinets, fortifications, orphanages, the Jewish Quarter, festivals, floggings, skating .. The author was a Norman merchant, who established his business in Amsterdam"--Bookseller's blurb.... In-12, [8] f. (dont le titre-frontispice gravé avec un plan d'Amsterdam), 317 p. [1] f. blanc, basane havane, dos lisse orné, titre et date dorés, plats décorés à froid de multiples losanges en relief et bordés d'un filet et d'une roulette dorés, roulette dorée aux coupes et chasses, tranches dorées, un feuillet de velin inséré en début et fin de vol. [Bozérian jeune] (dos un peu passé, mors un peu frottés). Reliure signée de Jean-Claude Bozérian. .

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