Moses Harris
L'Aurelien, London, 1794, red morocco gilt by Staggemeier, coloured plates
Found at
Sothebys,
London
The Library of Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Baron Fairhaven Part I, Lot 102
6. May - 18. May 2022
The Library of Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Baron Fairhaven Part I, Lot 102
6. May - 18. May 2022
Estimate: XX.XXX
Price realised: XX.XXX
Price realised: XX.XXX
Description
Moses Harris
L'Aurelian: ou histoire naturelle des chenilles, chrysalides, phalenes et papillons anglois; avec les plantes dont ils se nourissent. London: J. Edwards, 1794
Folio (410 x 280mm.), parallel text in English and French in double column, title within hand-coloured engraved border, hand-coloured engraved schematic plate at end of preliminaries, e2 (containing list of terms) bound at end, 44 hand-coloured engraved plates (on Whatman paper watermarked 1794), contemporary red straight-grained morocco gilt by Staggemeier & Welcher, palmette border, gilt edges, without frontispiece, occasional light foxing, slightly rubbed, lower joint cracked at head
A reissue of Harris's famous Aurelian (see lot 101), with the 1794 title-page and plates (Lisney 234), and the letterpress text from the second edition first issue of 1778 (Lisney 231). This copy does not have the frontispiece which is usually found in the 1778 edition but not in the 1794 edition. The plates are on shorter paper than the earlier editions (a few deckle edges remain) and contain an additional plate mark towards the edge of the leaves; they are printed in brown ink rather than black. Plates 17 and 35 are in their second state with amended dedications.
LITERATURE:
ESTC T163472 (& N21994); Lisney 234 (& 231)
PROVENANCE:
[From Canon Gibson's library, manuscript note on flyleaf by]; Benjamin Morgan Cowie (1816-1900), dean of Exeter, armorial bookplate; price £12/-/- on flyleaf
L'Aurelian: ou histoire naturelle des chenilles, chrysalides, phalenes et papillons anglois; avec les plantes dont ils se nourissent. London: J. Edwards, 1794
Folio (410 x 280mm.), parallel text in English and French in double column, title within hand-coloured engraved border, hand-coloured engraved schematic plate at end of preliminaries, e2 (containing list of terms) bound at end, 44 hand-coloured engraved plates (on Whatman paper watermarked 1794), contemporary red straight-grained morocco gilt by Staggemeier & Welcher, palmette border, gilt edges, without frontispiece, occasional light foxing, slightly rubbed, lower joint cracked at head
A reissue of Harris's famous Aurelian (see lot 101), with the 1794 title-page and plates (Lisney 234), and the letterpress text from the second edition first issue of 1778 (Lisney 231). This copy does not have the frontispiece which is usually found in the 1778 edition but not in the 1794 edition. The plates are on shorter paper than the earlier editions (a few deckle edges remain) and contain an additional plate mark towards the edge of the leaves; they are printed in brown ink rather than black. Plates 17 and 35 are in their second state with amended dedications.
LITERATURE:
ESTC T163472 (& N21994); Lisney 234 (& 231)
PROVENANCE:
[From Canon Gibson's library, manuscript note on flyleaf by]; Benjamin Morgan Cowie (1816-1900), dean of Exeter, armorial bookplate; price £12/-/- on flyleaf
Upper estimate price exceeded by 26%
In May this year Sothebys in London held the auction The Library of Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Baron Fairhaven Part I, which included the work L'Aurelien, London, 1794, red morocco gilt by Staggemeier, coloured plates by Moses Harris. The »bidding war« ended at GBP 5,040 (€ 5,929), 26% above the upper estimate. Other works by Moses Harris have achieved even higher prices, we observed the highest auction result so far of GBP 6,250 (€ 7,608) in April 2014 for the work .
Oberer Schätzpreis um 26% übertroffen
Im Mai diesen Jahres führte Sothebys in London die Auktion The Library of Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Baron Fairhaven Part I durch, in der auch die Arbeit L'Aurelien, London, 1794, red morocco gilt by Staggemeier, coloured plates von Moses Harris zur Versteigerung kam. Das »Bietergefecht« endete beim Preis von GBP 5.040 (€ 5.929) und damit 26% über dem oberen Schätzpreis. Andere Arbeiten von Moses Harris haben noch höhere Preise erzielt - wir haben das bisher höchste Auktionsergebnis von GBP 6.250 (€ 7.608) im April 2014 für die Arbeit beobachtet.
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