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Lot #    6198
Auction End Date    12/16/2003 11:52:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Les Filigranes
Author    [Bibliography] Charles Moise Briquet
City    New York
Publisher    Hacker Art Books
Publication Date    1985
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Four volumes, folio, 305:222 mm., 16,000 illus, crisp unused copy bound in the original boards.
          
Paragraph 1    A facsimile of the Leipzig, 1923 (2nd ed.) with supplementary mateiral contributed by a number of scholars.
          
Detailed
Description		    Full title: Les Filigranes. Dictionnaire Historique des Marques du Papier dès leur apparition vers 1282 jusqu'en 1600.

Briquet's is of great importance to all who deal with paper, whether as an artistic medium or a literary one. It is a monumental work illustrated with more than 16,000 reproductions of watermarks. The work, in effect a history of watermarks, is arranged alphabetically by the descriptive titles of the marks. A bibliography is provided in volume one.

          
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Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
America-South America:    Checked
  
Subject
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Characteristic
Language:    French
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica