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90 - SEGALEN (VICTOR)
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Estimate €400 - €600
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Description
SEGALEN (VICTOR) Stèles. Pei-King, Presses du Pei-T’ang, 1914. In-8 volume, ff. (288 x 142 mm), accordion-folded, cream paper cover (slightly pitted) with title label printed in French in the Chinese style, beneath wooden slats engraved with the title in Chinese and French, held in place by yellow laces. 7 full-page reproductions of Chinese calligraphy, Chinese ideograms in the text, 3 Chinese seals in red ink. Second edition, partly original. Print run of 640 copies; no. 208 of 570 on felted laid paper. A fine copy. First edition available in bookshops, expanded to include 16 ‘steles’ and a detailed explanation of the layout, which had not appeared in the rare first edition of 1912. ‘The “stele” form adopted arose from a striking analogy between the stone tablets scattered throughout China and the “ short, dense prose pieces” that he proposed to write even before he had seen them. “ (In French in the text, no. 340).
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About the sale Charity sale in aid of the Petits Frères Des Pauvres charity
Auction location
Auction time 10/25/2026 at 10:00 AM
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