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Lot 110
Sale 6004 - Books and Manuscripts
May 20, 2021
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[Printing] Charleville, Antoine Raucourt de Memoire sur les experiences litrographiques faites a l'ecole royale des ponts et chaussees de france; ou manuel theorique et pratique du dessinateur et de l'imprimeur lithographes
Toulon: Chez Aug. Aurel, 1819. First edition. 8vo. (vi), viii, 210 pp. Quarter brown calf, stamped in blind and in gilt, red morocco spine label, over marbled paper-covered boards; all edges untrimmed; marbled endpapers; lacking engraved folding plate; book-plate on front paste-down.
One of the earliest guides to the printing craft, printed only a year after lithography inventor Alois Senefelder's revolutionary printing manual Vollstandiges Lehrbuch der Steindruckerei.