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126 - DEMAISON (André) – GUYOT (Georges Lucien).
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Estimate €2,000 - €3,000
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DEMAISON (André) – GUYOT (Georges Lucien). The Book of Beasts Known as Wild. Paris: Librairie de la Revue française, [1930]. — In-8, 197 x 142: frontispiece, (6 leaves, the first 3 blank), 204 pp., (6 leaves, the last 3 blank), 10 plates, printed cover. Dark green morocco, covers decorated with a symmetrical design depicting a silver antelope within a black morocco square, symbolising a pair of bookends; plain spine adorned with a wide, long band in palladium, dark green morocco leather framing the interior, adorned with four pieces of dark grey morocco leather at the corners, joined together by three gilt fillets, linings and endpapers of green moiré silk, double endpapers, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved, slipcase (J. Van West). A deluxe edition, the first illustrated edition, adorned with 11 original out-of-text etchings by the animal painter and sculptor Georges Lucien GUYOT (1885–1973). One of the first 10 copies printed on Imperial Japanese paper (no. 6). A precious, unique copy, enriched with 17 original watercolour drawings by Guyot, with an inscription by the artist on the title page: ‘Illustrated with eleven etchings by Guyot and seventeen watercolour drawings. Guyot 1932.’ Beautiful mosaic binding by the Belgian bookbinder Jules-Karl Van West. Spine faded.
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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
Lot description modified on 10/09/2026 at 11:20 AM
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