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Fables de La Fontaine avec de nouvelles remarques explicatives philologiques et littéraires et un choix de notes extraites de tous les commentateurs par M. Félix Lemaistre
by La Fontaine, Jean de; M. Félix Lemaistre
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller
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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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About This Item
Paris: Garnier frères libraires, 1875. Hardcover. Very good. [Pierre-Gustave-Eugène] Staal. 416pp. Duodecimo [18cm]. 1/4 leather over marbled boards. With raised bands and blind stamped title on spine, along with faded gilt stamped floral decoration. Lovely marbled textblock edges and endsheets. Mild scuffing to spine ends and edges of boards. Textblock is mildly foxed throughout. Half-title has a 2cm closed tear. Front hinge beginning to crack. A lovely French-language edition of La Fontaine's "Fables," with illustrations by Staal.
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- Bookseller
- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 63681
- Title
- Fables de La Fontaine avec de nouvelles remarques explicatives philologiques et littéraires et un choix de notes extraites de tous les commentateurs par M. Félix Lemaistre
- Author
- La Fontaine, Jean de; M. Félix Lemaistre
- Illustrator
- [Pierre-Gustave-Eugène] Staal
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Garnier frères libraires
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1875
- Keywords
- animals; fairy tales; mythology;
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About the Seller
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Salt Lake City, Utah
About Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Ken Sanders Rare Books is a full service antiquarian bookshop in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. We carry an ever-changing inventory of art, ephemera, maps, photography, and postcards in addition to a vast selection of used and rare books along with a few new books. We actively purchase and appraise books in all fields.
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Marbled boards
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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