[Dames almanak 1819]
Almanac women 1819 | Beautiful binding for the Almanach dedié aux Dames pour l’An 1819, Le Fuel / Delauney Paris [1819], (30)+134+(32) pp. From the library of bookbinder biliophile Carlo de Poortere.
Almanach for the year 1819 with calender, engravings of famous paintings with explication: Une femme jenant de la guitare by G. Netscher, Le marchand d’ Orvietan by Wouvermens, La Pais et la Force by Cirroser, Les bulles de savon by Ecole Hollandais, La partie de chasse pour le Vol by Wouvermens and Le Retour de la chasse by Perigelbais. Thereafter the almanac text and at the end 26 pages with music sheets by Boielilieu, Gatayes, Marcillac, and Fabry Garat. At te end empty pages for notes with for every month an engraving.
Beautiful contemporary gilt calf binding with moroccan letterpiece on spine, guilt decorations on front and back and inside. Spine with elaborate red gilt floral ornaments and distinctive onlaid red and black morocco quatrefoils. The boards are framed with elegant gilt roll borders. Board edges and turn-ins are also decorated in gilt. Decorative example of fine early nineteenth-century French binding craftsmanship. Duodecimo format, in -12, 12 x 8 cm.
Provenance: Pasted in exlibris of Carlo De Poortere (Kortrijk, 21 maart 1917 – 24 oktober 2002). He was the son of tapestry maker Louis De Poortere and Gabrielle Buyschaert, co-owner of family business ‘Tapijten Louis De Poortere’, collector and bibliophile with a library with mainly only 17th and 18th century bookbindings.
SKU: 110851
€ 163,50 (€ 150,00 ex. btw)