MAVELOT (Ch.). Nouveau livre des chiffres qui contient en gé - Lot 14

MAVELOT (Ch.). Nouveau livre des chiffres qui contient en général tous les noms et surnoms entrelassez par alphabet. A useful and necessary work for painters, sculptors, engravers and others, invented and engraved by Charles Mavelot... Dedicated to Monseigneur le Dauphin. Se vend à Paris, chez l'auteur, 1680, in-4°, red morocco, gilt roulette around the boards, crowned numeral stamped in the corners set with foliage, in the center large arms surrounded by a garland of flowers, in the center, at the head and foot, fleuron with dotted lines, ornate ribbed spine, gilt edges (antique binding). Collation: 1 f. engraved title, 2 ff. epistle, 21 plates of large numerals, 58 plates of interlaced numerals, and 4 pp. of Tables and Privilege. First edition. 21 copper-engraved plates depicting the figures of the principal personages of the time, and 58 plates of interlaced figures using the same technique, 6 per plate, for a total of 348 interlaced figures. The set is dedicated by Mavelot (16??-1742) to Louis de France (1661-1711), the Grand Dauphin, eldest son of Louis XIV and Marie-Thérèse of Austria. This copy bears the arms of Louis de France. The irons used for the arms and the interlaced crowned numeral are not listed by Olivier. Binding restored: upper head, jaws and corners. Lining and endpapers renewed. Dimensions: 215 x 160 mm. Brunet, III, 1547-1548 (different collation); Gilmard, I, 109; Saffroy, I, 2682 (different collation); Schumann (H.), The Art of ornament and writing, 511, no. 37; Berlin Cat., 5305; Olivier, 2522.