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Wednesday 18 November 2020, 10:30 AM • Rome

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La Fontaine, Jean de

[Contes et nouvelles en vers], 1760

Estimate

€ 100 - 200

Sold

€ 269

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

Collection of 82 finely engraved copper plates, [sec. XVIII], (120 x 88 mm), and glued on a sheet of old paper (203 x 133 mm), each protected by tissue paper, a detached sheet, elegant binding of the century XVIII in long-grained red moroccan, with decoration engraved in gold, plates framed by a frame of threads and wheels, on the back smooth green leather gusset with title and completely decorated with stylized geometric motifs, some stains.

Specialist Notes

Elegant collection of tables probably taken from an eighteenth-century edition of the famous work Contes et nouvelles en vers & nbsp; by the French writer La Fontaine (1621-1695).
The lot is sold as a collection of plates and is not liable to return.

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