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203 - RACINAIS, Henry / VERSAILLES MUSEUM.
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Estimate €200 - €300
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RACINAIS, Henry / VERSAILLES MUSEUM. [VERSAILLES]. Set of 2 titles in 3 volumes. -RACINAIS, Henry. Unknown Versailles: The Private Apartments of Kings Louis XV and Louis XVI at the Palace of Versailles. Lefebvre, 1950. 2 small quarto volumes in a slipcase. Good copy Numbered edition 94: one volume of text and one atlas with black heliogravure prints Cardboard binding slightly faded but a fine copy -HISTORICAL GALLERIES OF VERSAILLES. Small Italian-style folio. Loose sheets in an oblong half-black shagreen binding with black percaline corners and covers, publisher’s title ‘Musée de Versailles’ on the front cover (some foxing, mainly on the sides; the two title pages are soiled; the binding is rubbed). Numerous line engravings and steel engravings in black: plans, interiors, architectural details, paintings. Title page of Series I. Section I: plans, interior views (numerous fine line-engraved views). Numerous plates of portraits engraved on steel or copper in black, and historical scenes engraved in line or on copper. Section VII. Emoire and Section II: the Prussian campaign Stains, mainly on the sides. 2 pages with stains and 129 plates on thick white vellum with tarnished edges
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Auction time 10/30/2026 at 2:00 PM
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