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La rôtisserie de la reine Pédauque.
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769
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La rôtisserie de la reine Pédauque.
See original version (French)
Estimate €600 - €800
Voluntary lot
Description
La rôtisserie de la reine Pédauque. Revised and corrected edition by the author. Colour illustrations by Joseph Hémard. In-8°. - 34 stencil-coloured compositions: cover vignette, title vignette and 32 in-text. Edition of 480 copies, one of the top 50 on vellum (No. 22) with 1 signed original watercolour and 1 black suite of all the illustrations. Enriched with : 1. A unique suite of illustrations coloured by the artist and used as a model for the colouring, preceded by an aut. note signed by the publisher: "all this suite of illustrations are [sic] strictly speaking Hémard's originals and there have been no others" (these are, however, the coloured engravings and not the original drawings). - 2. the draft and the "bon à tirer" proof of the cover with mss. technical indications - 3. ms. sheet of the copy with indications of provenance. - Ref. Mahé II:133. - Carteret IV:170. - Prov. [Maurice] de Smet de Naeyer (according to the ms. card). - Sale E. Relecom 26-01-1961, no. 406 (id.).
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About the sale
Prints & Drawings, Photographs & Comics, Rare Books, Atlases & Manuscripts, Surrealism, Congo, Erotica & Ballets russes
Auction location
Auction time
06/25/2026 at 1:00 PM
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