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Tuesday 06 December 2022 e Wednesday 07 December 2022, 03:00 PM • Rome

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Unpublished or very rare French short story and poems from the 14th century, 1888

Estimate

€ 150 - 200

Sold

€ 576

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

Florence, Giuseppe Civelli, 1888. In 2nd. 362 x 255 mm. Each page framed by a rich chromolithograph typographic frame that varies in color in the preliminaries and for each text proposed, contains three texts in French: "La Chastelaine du Vergier", in prose, "Le Dit des Oyseaulx" and "Le Conseils des Oyseaulx", in verse, sumptuous blue leather binding with gold decorations to the Arms of Savoy, copy intended for H.R.H. il Duca di Genova, as per the ex libris on the back cover, peeling and defects, scratch on the lower cover with loss of skin. Limited edition of 50 copies.

Specialist Notes

Sumptuous encomiastic impression for the Queen's birthday, "To the Augusta Queen of Italy Margherita di Savoia on her most auspicious birthday these pages written in the ancient language of the country where her glorious House was cradled, the Publisher consecrates with reverence and devotion ."

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