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an old book sitting on top of a white surface with a red coveran image of a book with a title in french on ita book with a red cover sitting on a white surfacean open book with a picture of a clock on ita red book sitting on top of a wooden tablean open book with a drawing of a sun on itan old book with a picture of a clock and a page of textan old print of a table with a number of names on ita black and white drawing of a table with a lot of numbers on ittwo pictures of a man and a woman sitting in front of a clockan old drawing of a group of people standing around a tablea black and white drawing of a man riding a horse
KÂ- MONDO / KAPANDJI MORHANGE

58 - ‎CHAMPIER, Victor. Les anciens almanachs illustrés.
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Estimate €180 - €280
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Description
‎CHAMPIER, Victor. Les anciens almanachs illustrés. Paris, Bibliothèque des Deux Mondes, L. Frinzine et Cie, 1886. Folio (44 x 33 cm), red half-shagreen with corner caps, ribbed spine with title in gold lettering. 136 pp., 2 unnumbered folios (tables) and 50 plates, all mounted on tabs. Scuffing to the spine and headbands; corners pierced. Foxing mainly on the edges. First edition of this seminal study on illustrated almanacs, complete with all 50 black-and-white and colour plates, reproducing the principal illustrated or engraved almanacs by, amongst others, Léonard Gautier, Crispin de Passe, Abraham Bosse, De Larmessin, Lepeautre, Cl. Audran, Gravelot, Cochin, Quévardo, Dorgez, Debucourt, Devéria, etc. A copy from the satin-finished vellum edition, untrimmed, following the extremely rare numbered edition, limited to just 10 copies on Imperial Japanese paper. A fine luxury publication in folio format.
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Auction time 11/02/2026 at 2:00 PM
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