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a blue leather bound book with three books on itan open book with a blue cover and gold trimillustration of a woman in a white dress standing in front of a group of people
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Estimate €500 - €750
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Bindings Moreau, Hégésippe Petits Contes à ma soeur. With 62 woodcut illustrations by Louis Dunki and 2 additional sets of all the woodcuts on Japan and China. Paris, É. Pelletan, 1896. 195 pp., 4 leaves. 4°. Midnight-blue morocco with gold-stamped title on the spine, gilt edges, richly gold-stamped blue morocco endpapers bearing the signature of the French bookbinder Henri Noulhac, staggered, partly dotted fillets, floral and plant borders and rocaille ornaments, double endpapers of grey moiré silk and marbled paper, gold edging on three sides, in a lined morocco slipcase with marbled paper covering. One of 25 numbered copies of the special edition (GA 350) on Japon paper from the Manufactures Impériales, featuring a double print run of all woodcuts on ‘japon ancien’ and ‘chine’ paper. - One of the first publications by Édouard Pelletan, illustrated with 62 compositions by the Swiss painter Louis Dunki, which were carved in wood by Clément-Édouard Bellenger. - This copy was printed for M. Ferdinand Pradeau. - Scattered with minimal foxing. Overall, a copy in extremely good condition in a decorative Noulhac binding. Book bindings – Featuring 62 woodcut illustrations by Louis Dunki, plus 2 additional suites of all woodcuts on Japon and Chine. Midnight blue morocco with gilt title, gilt edges, richly gilt blue morocco inner boards signed by the French bookbinder Henri Noulhac, featuring staggered fillets, floral and vegetable borders and rocaille ornaments, double endpapers of grey moiré silk and marbled paper, gilt edges on three sides, in a lined morocco slipcase with a marbled paper cover. – One of 25 numbered copies of the special edition (total print run 350) on ‘Japon des Manufactures Impériales’, with a double print run of all woodcuts on ‘japon ancien’ and ‘chine’. - One of the first publications by Édouard Pelletan, illustrated with 62 compositions by the Swiss painter Louis Dunki, carved in wood by Clément-Édouard Bellenger. - This copy was printed for Mr Ferdinand Pradeau. - Sporadically and minimally foxed. Overall, a very well-preserved copy in a decorative Noulhac binding.
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Auction time 10/24/2026 at 10:00 AM
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