Au Louis d'or le Coursonnois, md. orfevre ... [realia]

À Paris, 1768

1 item ; 55 × 85 mm

Engraved copper plate for a trade card of a master goldsmith.
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France -- Paris, -- publication place.

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From dealer's description: "Engraved copper plate (55 ×85 mm), some tarnishing. Traces of portions of engraving for another larger plate on the reverse. Wrapped in paper (perhaps later) bearing an impression of the plate and later manuscript note. This engraved copper plate was for the trade card of master goldsmith and jewellery and bullion dealer, Le Coursonnois in the Rue St. Martin (opposite the gothic church of St Nicolas). In addition he offers swift and painless mechanical piercings: ‘Le dit Sieur, à un outil méchanical, pour percer les oreilles avec promptitude et régularité surpenante et sans que l’on sente le douleur’. The plate is engraved on the verso of another larger plate (apparently for a scientific diagram) from which it has been cut and reused." Ordered from Justin Croft, D9632, 2023-05-01, Cat. New York Antiquarian Book Fair, April 2023, item #5

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