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Lot 153
Sale 2107 - Collections of an Only Child: Seventy Years a Bibliophile, the Library of Justin G. Schiller
Dec 5, 2024
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Lot Description
[Melchers, Franz M.] Braun, Thomas. L'an
Brussells: Ed(gard). Lyon-Claesen, 1847 (but 1897). First edition. Square 4to. Unpaginated. Illustrated with 16 full-page color lithographs, each signed in pencil by the artist Franz Melchers. Original limp printed wrappers, front almost completely torn horizontally, extremities' chipped; prelims foxed. In modern slip case and chemise.
Very rare edition of poems by Belgian author Thomas Braun (1876-1961). Illustrated with superb Art Nouveau woodcuts individually signed by Franz Melchers (1868-1944)--typically found unsigned, and rare as such.
This lot is located in Philadelphia.