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Libert et associés

50 - [BILLAUT (Adam)].

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Estimation

€180 - 200

Sale fees

30%

[BILLAUT (Adam)]. Les Chevilles by Mr. Adam, a carpenter from Nevers. Paris: Toussainct Quinet, 1644. Small in-4° Bradel, ivory vellum, black morocco title label on the spine (19th-century binding). 28 + [VIII] + 100 + [VIII] + 315 pp. FIRST EDITION of this famous work by Adam Billaut (1602–1662), nicknamed the “Virgil with a plane,” one of the first working-class poets. From the library of Jean Seignette in La Rochelle, with a handwritten bookplate on the verso of the last leaf. Portrait missing; first inner spine joint detached; copy with narrow margins and damage to the text on ff. n1 & n2; some foxing and ink inscriptions. “The portrait of Maître Adam is often missing” (Brunet, I, 46).

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Auction details

Books & Graphic Works
Tuesday, November 10
02:00 PM
Hôtel Drouot
9, rue Drouot
75009 Paris, France

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Libert et associés +33 1 48 24 51 20 info@libert-associes.com
On Drouot for more than 10 years avec More than 35,000 lots published

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