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Lot 298

Sale 5792 - Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Jan 30, 2020 8:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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[Early Printing] Lens, Andre Le Costume ou essai sur les habillements et les usages de plusieurs peuples de l'antiquite...

Liege: J.F. Bassompierre, 1776. First edition. 4to. (i)-xxxi (1), (1)-411, (1) pp. Illustrated with 51 engraved plates. Contemporary mottled brown French calf, scuffed, corners bumped and blistered, spine and joints rubbed, spine ends worn away with bands exposed and loosening; stamped in gilt; edges stained red; marbled endpapers. Plates 22 and 23 moderately to heavily spotted; other scattered light foxing; spotting to fore-edges; some text margins discolored; minor dampstaining to rear endpapers; small old ink markings on endpapers. Small library label on front paste-down. Brunet III 980.

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