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177 - [Auxerre]. A collection of printed documents relating to the…
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Estimate €70 - €100
Description
[Auxerre]. A collection of printed documents relating to the festivities known as the ‘Retraites illuminées’. 1866–1908. 9 stapled items bound in a ring binder (the spines reinforced with modern blue adhesive tape). - 4 large fold-out panoramas showing the composition of the parade for the years 1882, 1889, 1900 and 1908. - DUMAS (Alexandre). *La retraite illuminée*. 2nd ed. Auxerre, Gallot, 1889. In-18, paperback. Copy numbered 13. - MOLARD (F.). *The Illuminated Retreat of 5 August 1889*. Auxerre, Impr. Lanier, 1890. In-18, paperback. With 4 plates. Printed in a run of 400 copies: one of the 375 on vellum. - MOLARD. The Illuminated Procession of 5 August 1889. 1891. Offprint from the Bulletin of the Yonne Scientific Society. - By the same author, History and Origin of the Illuminated Processions, Auxerre, 1889, 4 pages. - A leaflet for the procession of 6 May 1866 (faded, repaired).
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