18 - DINET. DEVIC (Marcel), trans. Antar.
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Estimate €400 - €500

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DINET. DEVIC (Marcel), trans. Antar. An Arab heroic poem. Based on the translation by Marcel Devic. Paris, L'Edition d'Art H. Piazza, 1898. Folio, 125 pp., plates, illustrations, paperback, with publisher’s slipcase and cover (slipcase from another work titled ‘Tristan and Iseult’ on the spine; partial tears in the slipcase; cover detached and torn along the spine; some illustrations and the cover have transferred onto the first endpaper). A splendid edition illustrated by the Orientalist painter Étienne Dinet (1861–1929). It contains 132 colour illustrations, including 5 full-page illustrations, 114 within the text, 11 chapter-heading vignettes and 2 end-piece illustrations. Limited edition of 300 numbered copies: this one, unmarked, is printed on heavy vellum paper bearing a watermark of the book’s title and the publisher’s name, Charles Masson.

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About the sale Books from the 15th to the 21st century, most of which are illustrated. Manuscripts. Painters’ autographs. Maps and plans. Atlases. Architectural drawings. Normandy.

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18 - DINET. DEVIC (Marcel), trans. Antar. See original version (French)

18 - DINET. DEVIC (Marcel), trans. Antar.
See original version (French)