SUPEREKSLIBRIS by Count Charles Henry de Hoym; LOCKE - ON THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN

SUPEREXLIBRIS by Count Charles Henry de Hoym

DE L'ÉDUCATION DES ENFANTS, TRADUIT DE L'ANGLOIS DE MR. LOCKE, PAR PIERRE COSTE.

A Paris, chez Jean Musier. 1711. , pp. 443 ,[13], format 10.5x16.5 cm

HARD BURNING FROM THE 18th C.E. -. FULL CALFSKIN WITH DEEPLY EMBOSSED AND GILT IN MIRROR OF BOTH FACES SUPEREXLIBRIS OF COUNT KAROLAHENRYK DE HOYMN, 6-POLY SPINE RICHLY GILT ALL OVER AND COLORED SIGNBOARD WITH GILT TITLING. DECORATIVE LINING IN SO CALLED. "PEACOCK EYE", CARD TRIMS WITH "PEACOCK EYE" MOTIF. BEAUTIFUL, IMPRESSIVE BINDING!

Piecespecial because of its provenance.

Count Charles Henry de Hoym [1694-1736] was the ambassador of King Augustus II of Poland to France, but he went down in history primarily as an excellent bibliophile, particularly active in the years 1717-1734. Dominating the auctions held at the time, including those outside France, he spent a fortune on enlarging the collection with the greatest cimelia, so that the size of the book collection went hand in hand with the quality; he accumulated, among other things, 5 books in bindings by Grolier himself.
He used the services of the royal bookbinder Luc-Antoine Boyet [d. 1733], binding his books in calfskin or marocin and signing them with a superexlibris, whose characteristic element besides the shield of arms was a chain with the Order of the White Eagle, of which Count Hoym was one of the first cavaliers, on the spines of the books he usually placed the Polish eagle in the crown. Count Hoym's career collapsed when, seeking funds for his extremely expensive passion, he betrayed his closely guarded secrets concerning Miocene porcelain and fell into disfavor with August II. Ruined, he settled at the court of King Stanislaw Leszczynski in Nancy and died by suicide. A sale of his library, one of the largest of the time, was organized in 1738 and was accompanied by a catalog, the best evidence of the size of Count Hoym's collection.

See Brunet 4, 368 EWoK.

The work offered is John Locke's "On the Education of Children."

John, Locke, is, a philosopher and pedagogue, living and creating in 17th-century England, interacting in a specific historical context, which was reflected in the topics taken up in his main texts, which were, as it were, answers to the problems troubling society at the time. At the same time, the way they were approached testified to going beyond the instrumentality that characterized his contemporaries, heralded the use of new means and methods of describing reality, heralded the Enlightenment.

CONDITION BDB/ PERFECT/ IMPECCABLE, IMPRESSIVE, COLLECTOR'S PIECE, DEVOID OF ANY DEFECTS!
Cf . piece- BYDGOSKI ANTYKWARIAT NAUKOWY, 37th auction catalog, item 843, price 7000 zloty.

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