LA FLEUR DES ANTIQUITEZ DE PARIS. Preface de Francois Boucher. Illustrations de Pierre Valade. Bois Graves de Gilbert Poilliot
by (Valade, Pierre). Corrozet, Gilles
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller
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Cadyville, New York, United States
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About This Item
Paris: Aux Editions de l'Ibis, 1945.. 1945.. Very good. - Octavo, loose signatures laid into cream wraps titled in black within a decorative color frame on the front wrap, in original glassine. The book is laid into a gray cardboard folding case with a printed label on the spine & is additionally housed in a gray cardboard slipcase. The glassine is somewhat darkened. The spine of the folding case is slightly darkened with tears to the head & the printed label is darkened & slightly chipped. The slipcase is slightly darkened & lightly rubbed with the top panel lacking. There are tears to the head of its spine & to the bottom panel. 137 & [1] pages plus colophon, partially unopened. Illustrated in color by Pierre Valade with a full-page pictorial title for each chapter, textual illustrations, vignettes & pictorial initials. Near fine in a good folding case & a fair slipcase. <p>Number 495 of a limited ediiton of 945 copies. The text was originally published in 1533.<p>The list of illustrations [pages 137-138] has been misplaced and appears between pages 8 and 9 of the text.
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- Bookseller
- Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24268
- Title
- LA FLEUR DES ANTIQUITEZ DE PARIS. Preface de Francois Boucher. Illustrations de Pierre Valade. Bois Graves de Gilbert Poilliot
- Author
- (Valade, Pierre). Corrozet, Gilles
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Paris: Aux Editions de l'Ibis, 1945.
- Date Published
- 1945.
- Keywords
- ILLUSTRATED; FRENCH ILLUSTRATED BOOKS; PIERRE VALADE; GILBERT POILLIOT; TRAVEL; HISTORY; FRANCE; PARIS; ANTIQUITIES; SIXTEENTH CENTURY; 16TH CENTURY; GILLES CORROZET; FRANCOIS BOUCHER; LIMITED EDITION.
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Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
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Cadyville, New York
About Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. (incorporated 1989) is a general antiquarian book store which buys and sells collections and individual items of significance. Booksellers Ric Zank and Daniel Meunier each bring to the business over 18 years of experience in seeking out and offering for sale unusual, uncommon and rare books, autographs, and ephemera in all fields. Our office is open 7 days a week from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and frequently later. An answering machine will take your message after hours and when we are out of the office.
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