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Books, Autographs & Prints / Part II

Wednesday 31 March 2021, 03:00 PM • Rome

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France, Anatole - Fournier, Louis-Édouard

Sainte Euphrosine. Les actes de la vie de Sainte Euphrosine d'Alesandrie, en religion frere Smaragde, tels quils furent redigés dans laure du Mont Athos, par Georges, diacre, 1906

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€ 180 - 200

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€ 486

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Paris, Librairie des Amateurs, F. Ferroud, 1906. In 8 °. Adorned with 12 etchings by Pennequin after Louis-Édouard Fournier, Fournier frames augmented with the woodcuts of L.Marie, amateur binding in hazelnut Moroccan, executed by Torricelli di Siena who signs the dentelles of the counterplate, to the plates elegant frame imprinted in gold, silk looks, some scratches. Ex libris Landau.
Refined edition in elegant binding in a limited edition of 225 numbered copies, ours is part of the luxury edition, it is no.25 of the 80 "in-4 ° carré réimposés sur papier du Japon ou grand vélin d'Arches", double suite of illustrations in plates outside the text and finally a series of 9 plates that repeat the singular frames of the text.