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Lot 458
Sale 2687 - The Collection of Amb. & Mrs. Alexander Weddell - The Virginia House Museum
Apr 10, 2019
6:00AM ET
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$200
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Lot Description
[FINE BINDINGS] LA FONTAINE, JEAN DE contes et nouvelles, en vers
Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, 1868. In two volumes. Out-of-series copy, 1/116 (of 171). 12mo. With frontispiece portrait, 77 engraved appliqué plates, many of erotic subjects, but lacking the appliqué frontispiece in the second volume. Contemporary full gilt paneled brick red crushed morocco, richly gilt foliate spine compartments, raised bands, inner dentelles gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Lightly worn; ownership signature in ink on front blank, small stains to prelims, some foxing to same, light foxing to text, otherwise bright and attractive bindings. Ex-library with book-plates on front paste-downs, all numbers in pencil on verso of front free endpaper and title-pages.