CATALOGUE OF THE CELEBRATED COLLECTION OF WORKS OF ART.

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(BERNAL) CATALOGUE OF THE CELEBRATED COLLECTION OF WORKS OF ART FROM THE BYZANTINE PERIOD TO THAT OF LOUIS SEIZE. London: Christie and Manson, 1855. 8vo. Later cloth. Frontispiece, 357 pages 33 plates. First edition. Ralph Bernal was one of the first English connoisseurs to collect objects d'a porcelain, miniatures, bronzes, and silver works, on a grand scale. This thirty-two day auction, realizing 70,954 pounds, was called by Reitlinger "on of the half-dozen outstanding sales of the nineteenth century." Name in ink title page. repaired upper tip to leaf B2, else very good.

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Title
CATALOGUE OF THE CELEBRATED COLLECTION OF WORKS OF ART.
Author
BERNAL, Ralph
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
1st Edition

BOOKPRESS LTD.

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