Null D'Allemagne (Henri-René) - FROM KHORASSAN TO THE COUNTRY OF THE BACKHTIARIS…
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D'Allemagne (Henri-René) - FROM KHORASSAN TO THE COUNTRY OF THE BACKHTIARIS. Three months of travels in PERSIA. Bibliothécaire de la Archiviste Paléographe Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, chargé d'une mission archéologique en Perse. Paris, Hachette, 1911, 4 large vol. in-4, bound in brown half-chagrin, spine ribbed, edged with the author's name, title and tomaison, boards decorated with flowers, green, original chromolithographed cover plate preserved in TI, edges speckled, work containing 960 plates in the text and 255 plates h-t. including 47 in color, placed, under captioned serpente, frontispiece with birds and flowers, verso is placed the reproduction in coul. Of a Persian miniature, cracking between the TI false-title and the frontispiece without any damage to solidity, 228, 255, 271, 323pp. Limited edition of 500 copies, one of 250 specially reserved for the author with an autograph letter from him to Monsieur Jacques Bigot, dated January 1, 1912, unjustified edition of 250, a very fine, fresh copy.

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D'Allemagne (Henri-René) - FROM KHORASSAN TO THE COUNTRY OF THE BACKHTIARIS. Three months of travels in PERSIA. Bibliothécaire de la Archiviste Paléographe Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, chargé d'une mission archéologique en Perse. Paris, Hachette, 1911, 4 large vol. in-4, bound in brown half-chagrin, spine ribbed, edged with the author's name, title and tomaison, boards decorated with flowers, green, original chromolithographed cover plate preserved in TI, edges speckled, work containing 960 plates in the text and 255 plates h-t. including 47 in color, placed, under captioned serpente, frontispiece with birds and flowers, verso is placed the reproduction in coul. Of a Persian miniature, cracking between the TI false-title and the frontispiece without any damage to solidity, 228, 255, 271, 323pp. Limited edition of 500 copies, one of 250 specially reserved for the author with an autograph letter from him to Monsieur Jacques Bigot, dated January 1, 1912, unjustified edition of 250, a very fine, fresh copy.

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