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Feb 17 | 5:00 AM EST
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| Philadelphia
Sale 5724
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| Philadelphia
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Estimate$500 – $800
Paris: Michel Levy Freres, 1858. Third edition. One of 40 copies printed on china paper. 8vo. Profusely illustrated with 34 black and white engravings by E(rnest). Meissonier, seven vignettes by Jean-Antoine-Valentin Foulquier, and two steel engraved portraits after Meissonier. Full scarlet crushed morocco, elaborately tooled in gilt; white moire silk endleaves and doublures; all edges gilt; original stiff printed wrappers bound in. Book-plate on verso of front free endpaper, old bookseller's ticket in Cyrillic in Russian language on rear free endpaper; blindstamp in Cyrillic in Russian language in top corner of title-page. A fine copy.
From the library of bibliophile and long-standing Grolier Club member David Allen Fraser (1911-2003).
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