PHOENIX PRESSE A PLATINE AVEC ENCREAGE CYLINDRIQUE PERFECTIONNAE ET BREVETAE
by [Phoenix Platin Press]
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Leipzig: J.G. Schelter & Giesecke, [1899].. 48pp. plus 10 plates. Quarto (28.5 x 22.5 cm). Cloth backed boards with pictorial upper board. Relevant promotional stamps on title, boards a bit soiled and edgeworn, slightly shaken, but a good copy. Pocket on rear pastedown (for price list??) not occupied. First edition of this substantial and beautiful promotional for the Phoenix Platin Press, manufactured in Leipzig by Schelter and Giesecke. Several of the pages are printed in color as representative of the press's work, as is one sheet of an illustration executed wholly in blind. The stamps on the title are for the Grand Prize at the 1900 Paris Exposition and for the Brussels office of the firm. Rare: OLC locates a single copy (under two records) at BM Lyon. OCLC: 123507675 & 822847681.
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- Bookseller
- William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- WRCLIT86530
- Title
- PHOENIX PRESSE A PLATINE AVEC ENCREAGE CYLINDRIQUE PERFECTIONNAE ET BREVETAE
- Author
- [Phoenix Platin Press]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- J.G. Schelter & Giesecke
- Place of Publication
- Leipzig
- Date Published
- [1899].
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB
About William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB
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