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Castor Hara

111 - "Les Paraboles"—illustrated by Eugène Burnand, with a preface by André Michel and a foreword by Viscount Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé—Berger-Levrault & Cie, Paris (same publisher in Nancy)—1908. Text based on the version by Lemaistre de Sacy; 11 separate heliogravure plates (on paper from the Arches mills) and numerous illustrations within the text reproduced as facsimiles. Print run of 1,500 numbered copies; this one no. 1463, one of 1,350 on vellum paper. Large folio (approx. 30 x 40 cm), loose-leaf in a publisher’s cover with flaps made of unbleached cloth decorated with gilded ears of wheat and vine leaves. Condition: cover slightly soiled and rubbed at the corners; creases present; pages fresh, with a few scattered foxing spots on the margins.

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"Les Paraboles"—illustrated by Eugène Burnand, with a preface by André Michel and a foreword by Viscount Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé—Berger-Levrault & Cie, Paris (same publisher in Nancy)—1908. Text based on the version by Lemaistre de Sacy; 11 separate heliogravure plates (on paper from the Arches mills) and numerous illustrations within the text reproduced as facsimiles. Print run of 1,500 numbered copies; this one no. 1463, one of 1,350 on vellum paper. Large folio (approx. 30 x 40 cm), loose-leaf in a publisher’s cover with flaps made of unbleached cloth decorated with gilded ears of wheat and vine leaves. Condition: cover slightly soiled and rubbed at the corners; creases present; pages fresh, with a few scattered foxing spots on the margins.

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Old Papers
Monday, November 23
02:00 PM
25, rue Le Peletier
75009 Paris, France

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Castor Hara +33 1 48 24 30 77 etude@castor-hara.com
On Drouot for more than 10 years avec More than 62,000 lots published

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