Mort d'Abel. Traduit par [Michael] Hubert (sic). Édition ornée d'estampes imprimées en couleur, d'après les dessins de M. [Nicolas André] Monsiau.
by GESSNER, Salomon
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Paris, Defer de Maisonneuve, 1793. With color-printed engraved frontispiece and 5 color-printed plates engraved by Colibert, Clément and Casenave. 3 blank ff.; 161 pp., 3 blank ff. Royal 4to. Contemp. full calf with red spine, triple gilt fillets on covers, gilt inside dentelles (back rep.). Paris, Defer de Maisonneuve, 1793. De luxe edition printed on "grand papier vélin" with the six stipple-engraved color-prints "avant la lettre" after the Paris book illustrator and painter Nicolas André Monsiau (1754-1837). Still a good copy of one of "the most beautiful editions in French" (M. Bircher). - Slightly foxed. - Leemann-van Elck 699; Maler und Dichter der Idylle S. Gessner (1980), no. 92; Cohen/de Ricci 436; Lewine 211. LITERATURE: FRENCH ; HELVETICA: ALLGEMEIN ; ILLUSTRIERTE BÜCHER [vor 1900] ; ILLUSTRATED BOOKS (BEFORE 1900) ;
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- Hellmut Schumann Antiquariat (CH)
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- Title
- Mort d'Abel. Traduit par [Michael] Hubert (sic). Édition ornée d'estampes imprimées en couleur, d'après les dessins de M. [Nicolas André] Monsiau.
- Author
- GESSNER, Salomon
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Paris, Defer de Maisonneuve
- Date Published
- 1793
- Keywords
- LITERATURE: FRENCH ; HELVETICA: ALLGEMEIN ; ILLUSTRIERTE BÜCHER [vor 1900] ;
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