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Lot 100

Sale 6285 - Books and Manuscripts
Mar 27, 2025 10:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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$500 - 800
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[Cheloniidae Press] Louys, Pierre. Leda In Praise of the Blessings of Darkness


(Easthampton, Massachusetts): Cheloniidae Press, 1985. Limited edition, #29/60 numbered copies, signed by the illustrator, Alan James Robinson. 4to. Translation and introduction by David Ball. Illustrated with color dry-point frontispiece, four color dry-point plates, and seven in-text wood-engravings, by Robinson. Plus an additional suite of the same prints, signed and numbered by Robinson. Publisher's blue paper-covered boards, stamped in black and in light grey; top edge trimmed, other edges untrimmed; suite of prints loose as issued in paper chemise; together in quarter alum-tawd over oatmeal cloth fall-down-back box.

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