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Various Artists after Clément-Pierre Marillier and Nicolas André Monsiaux. Translated by Isaac-Louis Le Maistre de Sacy.

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La Sainte Bible
1789: 12 volumes bound in six with 300 etched and engraved illustrations on thick wove paper (252 after Marillier, 48 after Monsiaux, and one large folding map of the Holy Land by Tardieu.) This is volume 9-10.; book: 30.5 x 23.5 x 6.7 cm (12 x 9 1/4 x 2 5/8 in.); William B. O'Neal Fund; 2009.37.2.5; Not on View

(Musinsky Rare Books, Inc., New York); purchased 2009 by NGA.

Musinsky Rare Books, Inc.

1982: Ray, Gordon N. The Art of the French Illustrated Book 1700 to 1914. New York, 1982: 47.

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