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Gros & Delettrez
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[ROMANTIC HARDBACK EDITIONS].
See original version (French)
17
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[ROMANTIC HARDBACK EDITIONS].
See original version (French)
Estimate €150 - €200
Voluntary lot
Description
[ROMANTIC HARDBACK EDITIONS].
BOLDENYI, J (ed.) and Abbé MOYNE.
SET of 2 titles.
-BOLDENYI, J (ed.).
Hungary, Ancient and Modern. History, Arts, Literature, Monuments by a Society of Writers.
Paris, H. Lebrun, 1851.
2 parts in one large 8vo volume, (4)-239-(2)-159 pp. on fine paper. Publisher’s gilt cardboard binding, black percaline cold-stamped and decorated with special gilt tools, gilt edges (discreet signs of wear on the upper cap with the spine slightly detached over 3 cm, foxing).
First edition. Rare in the publisher’s gilt cardboard binding.
Illustrated with 29 black-engraved plates, an engraved title page, a map of Hungary (with a corresponding table opposite) as an insert at the end of the volume, and numerous black woodcut vignettes by Janet-Lange, Beaucé, Breton, and others...
A gift inscription dated June 1860 on the upper endpaper.
Carteret, III, 98.
-MOYNE (Abbé).
Italy. A Guide for the Young Traveller.
Rouen, Megard, 1858.
Large 8vo, 408 pp., 4 black steel engravings, including a frontispiece, in a pink serpentine binding. Blue illustrated cardboard cover by the publisher, gilt edges (spine very slightly faded, a few foxing spots).
A fine copy.
See original version (French)
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