Lot n° 25
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[CHOISEUL-GOUFFIER, Marie-Gabriel-Florent-Auguste, comte de, et Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de CHAMFORT]
Discours préliminaire du voyage pittoresque de la Grèce [Kehl or Paris], De l'imprimerie de la Société littéraire-typographique, 1783
ONE OF THE VERY FEW COPIES ON VELLUM, IN A BEAUTIFUL CONTEMPORARY BINDING.
PREFACE TO ONE OF THE BEST TRAVEL BOOKS OF THE NEOCLASSICAL PERIOD.
FORMER COLLECTION OF HENRY BLACKMER
separate ORIGINAL EDITION of this introductory speech to the Voyage pittoresque de la Grèce
Small in-8 (122 x 75 mm)
COLLATION : A-D8 E4 (E4 blank) : 70 pp., (1) f.
CONTENTS : A1r : title, A2r : warning, A3r : text
This copy is one of the few printed on leather (Brunet and Van Praet mention only three)
BINDING OF THE PERIOD. Red long-grained morocco, gilt decoration, frieze and roulette in frame, long spine decorated, lining and guard of water green tabis, gilt edges
PROVENANCE: Henry Myron Blackmer II (his sale, London, October 1989, no. 484, £4,400) -- Lardanchet bookshop (1990, 80,000 francs)
RARE: this copy on vellum is the only one to have been sold at public auction in the last fifty years
Very slight scratches on the spine
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Brunet, I, col. 1848 -- Van Praet, VI, p. 128, n° 62 -- Blackmer, 343
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