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a picture of a woman and a man sitting on the stepsan old book sitting on top of a white table next to a white wallan open book on a white surface with a black and white titlea drawing of a woman sitting in a chair with a cat
Maître Paul PASTAUD

1684 - BASSANVILLE (Anaïs de). The Adventures of a Pin, or Three Ce…
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BASSANVILLE (Anaïs de). The Adventures of a Pin, or Three Centuries of French History. Paris, Librairie de l’enfance & de la jeunesse, E. Ducrocq, [c. 1850]. In-8, XI Paris, 1 blank page, 320 pp., brown half-shagreen, ribbed spine decorated with gilt fillets, blind-stamped and dotted decoration, violet shagreened percaline covers with blind-stamped decoration, gilt edges (contemporary binding). A charming volume illustrated with a frontispiece and eleven lithographic engravings in bistre, depicting costumes from the Renaissance to the 18th century. Anaïs de Bassanville (1803–1884), known as the ‘Countess of Bassanville’, a journalist during the July Monarchy, was a keen observer of the salons during the Second Empire. Spine sun-faded, minor scuffs, slight foxing; otherwise a fine copy.
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About the sale MONTIGNAC – 31st BOOK SALE – Day 4 of 4 – Nos. 1643 to 1970
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Auction time 08/22/2026 at 11:00 AM
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