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60 - LECONTE DE LISLE – DENIS (Odette).
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Estimate €200 - €300
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LECONTE DE LISLE – DENIS (Odette). Les Poèmes Barbares. No place: Le Livre de Plantin, [1948]. — In-4, 320 x 250: (46 leaves, the first two and last two blank), illustrated cover. Loose-leaf, covered binding, publisher’s slipcase. A sought-after edition for its brilliant illustrations by the painter and wildlife illustrator Odette DENIS, for whom this was her first illustrated book, comprising 31 original etchings signed on the plate, including 10 full-page illustrations. The work was published under the artistic direction of the painter and engraver Almery Lobel-Riche, and features only a selection of 17 of the 81 poems comprising the complete collection. The edition was printed in a run of 205 copies on Arches vellum, signed by the artist on the margin. This is one of 25 copies containing an original signed drawing by Odette Denis, and two states of all the engravings (in black with notes on Rives vellum, and the final state within the text and as a full-page illustration). The drawing, measuring 235 x 198 mm and mounted on vellum paper, depicts a superb lion’s head in profile. The slipcase is badly damaged; the spine of the folder is missing. The book itself is very well preserved.
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About the sale Claude Mozis Library – Black Africa and the African diaspora
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Auction time 10/21/2026 at 2:00 PM
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