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KÂ- MONDO / KAPANDJI MORHANGE

30 - BELTZ, Robert and ERCKMANN-CHATRIAN.
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Estimate €100 - €200
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BELTZ, Robert and ERCKMANN-CHATRIAN. Tales from the Banks of the Rhine. Published at the artist’s expense, 1962. Folio (39 x 28.5 cm), loose-leaf in a padded cover, with the publisher’s cloth-bound folder (green spine) and slipcase. 121 pp. Spine of the slipcase worn. An illustrated edition featuring 47 watercolours by the Alsatian illustrator Robert Beltz (1900–1981), wood-engraved by Gilbert Poilliot. Limited edition of 299 copies on pure-fibre Lana vellum; this is no. 46. A collection of short stories written by the literary duo Erckmann and Chatrian, first published in 1862, presented here in a charming edition illustrated by Robert Beltz. Characterised by a style that is at once dreamlike, fairy-tale-like and humorous, his mastery and imagination have explored and enhanced many major works of literature, such as Sebastian Brant’s *The Ship of Fools*, Josse Bade’s *The Ship of Madwomen*, Goethe’s *Faust*, Flaubert’s *The Temptation of Saint Anthony*, E.A. Poe’s *Extraordinary Tales*, Baudelaire’s *The Flowers of Evil*, and Erckmann-Chatrian’s *Tales from the Banks of the Rhine*.
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Auction time 11/02/2026 at 2:00 PM
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