[Majolica - Binding]. Stunning Knipper-signed amateur binding in hazel-colored morocco with geometric motif on plates, gold friezes and title on spine, inlaid red and green morocco counterplate, richly gilded in gold, containing a bearded copy of André Pottier's 1870 Histoirede la Faïence deRouen with frontispiece printed in red and black, portrait, and 58 chromolithographic plates. Also in the lot is the 1934 Ducrot Collection Majolica Auction Catalogue;Alt-Berlin in Porzellan in the 1927 German edition by Nicola Moufang and Bernard Rachkham's 1940 Catalogue of Italian Maiolica in 2 volumes. (5)

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