Auction on
20 May 2019 - 14:30 (CEST) -
26 bis, allée Saint-François - 29600 Morlaix - Saint-Martin-des-Champs
The sale of several libraries provided a chance to rediscover a remarkable first edition compiling Sir William Hamilton's entire collection of antiquities.
Hugues d'Hancarville (1719-1805), Collection of Etruscan, Greek and Roman Antiquities from the Cabinet of the Hon. W. Hamilton, his Brittanick Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Naples, four in-plano volumes in their period calf bindings, Naples, François Morelli, 1766-1767. Result: €106,640
Hugues d'Hancarville (1719-1805), Collection of Etruscan, Greek and Roman Antiquities from the Cabinet of the Hon. W. Hamilton, his Brittanick Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Naples, four in-plano volumes in their period calf bindings, Naples, François Morelli, 1766-1767. Result: €106,640
The history of this monumental work is as follows: in 1767, Sir William Hamilton (1731-1803) asked the historian Hugues d'Hancarville (1719-1805) to list…
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