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BOISSINOT & TAILLIEZ BERGERAC

169 - Modern illustrated editions. 7 volumes.
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Estimate €50 - €100
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Modern illustrated editions. 7 volumes. [DECARIS]. PLUTARCH. The Lives of the Noble Men. Translated by Jacques Amyot, with a preface by André Maurois of the Académie Française, illustrations based on Decaris’s chiselled engravings. Philippe Lebaud Book Club, 1967. 3 volumes in-4, bound in mahogany full calf by Jacques Ebrard, with gilded fillet and black border, black and gilded interlaced decoration with a Renaissance-style medallion in the centre; spine with faux raised bands decorated with panels, gilt capitals, slipcases. Numbered edition. [HUMBERT]. ERASMUS. In Praise of Folly. Translated by Thibault de Laveaux. Illuminated illustrations by Paulette Humbert. P., Edit. de l’Odéon, n.d., in-4, full green calfskin, ribbed spine, spine and covers entirely decorated with gold motifs in the style of 16th-century ‘fanfare’ bindings, gilt head, slipcase. A copy numbered on Lana chiffon vellum. [ANDREU]. RACINE: Complete Plays. Illustration by Mariano Andreu. Paris, Club du Livre, 1961. 3 quarto volumes, publisher’s blue Skivertex binding, slipcases.
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About the sale ANTIQUARIAN AND MODERN BOOKS
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Auction time 09/18/2026 at 2:00 PM
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