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Gros & Delettrez

203 - RACINAIS, Henry / VERSAILLES MUSEUM.

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Estimation

€200 - 300

Sale fees

30%

RACINAIS, Henry / VERSAILLES MUSEUM. [VERSAILLES]. SET of 2 titles in 3 volumes. -RACINAIS, Henry. Unknown Versailles: The Private Apartments of Kings Louis XV and Louis XVI at the Palace of Versailles. Lefebvre, 1950. 2 small quarto volumes in a slipcase. Fine copy Numbered edition 94; one volume of text and one atlas with black heliogravure prints Cardboard binding slightly faded but a fine copy -HISTORICAL GALLERIES OF VERSAILLES. Small Italian-style folio. Loose-leaf in an oblong black half-shagreen binding with black percaline corners and covers, publisher’s title “Musée de Versailles” on the front cover (some foxing, mainly on the sides; the two title pages have some soiling; binding is rubbed). Numerous line engravings and steel engravings in black: maps, interiors, monuments, and paintings. Title page of Series I. Section I: maps, interior views (numerous beautiful line engravings). Numerous plates of portraits engraved on steel or copper in black, and historical scenes engraved in line art or on copper. Section VII. Emoire and Section II: Prussian Campaign Sporadic foxing, mainly on the margins. 2 pages with stains and 129 plates on thick white vellum with tarnished edges

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Auction details

Books & Manuscripts
Friday, October 30
02:00 PM
2, rue de Bérite
75006 Paris, France

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Gros & Delettrez +33 1 47 70 83 04 j.remaut@gros-delettrez.com
On Drouot for more than 10 years avec More than 280,000 lots published

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