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Lot 45

GAUTIER D'AGOTY, JEAN BAPTISTE ANDRÉ. 1740-1786
Galerie françoise, ou, Portraits des hommes et des femmes célèbres qui ont paru en France. Paris: Gautier D'agoty le fils, 1770.

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GAUTIER D'AGOTY, JEAN BAPTISTE ANDRÉ. 1740-1786

Galerie françoise, ou, Portraits des hommes et des femmes célèbres qui ont paru en France. Paris: Gautier D'agoty le fils, 1770.
Part 1 (of 2) only. Folio (325 x 248 mm). Mezzotint frontispiece and 11 mezzotint portrait plates. Contemporary mottled calf, rebacked retaining original spine. Somewhat rubbed, browning and foxing.

FIRST EDITION. Portraits and biographical sketches include those of Louis XV, the Dauphin Louis Ferdinand, Regent Philippe d'Orleans, Louis XIII, Louis XIV, Henri IV, and other historically prominent members of the French court. In this first volume, the artist and publisher was the son of anatomical illustrator Jacques Fabien Gautier d'Aagoty. This first volume was the only one completed entirely by d'Agoty: The second volume included his engravings, but the editorial work was taken over by J.D. Cochin. A later third volume was prepared and published by Cochin and Jean Restout. Conlon 70:938.

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