May 19, 2005 - Sale 2044

Sale 2044 - Lot 47

Price Realized: $ 230
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(BARBIER, GEORGE.) Le Gallienne, Richard. The Romance of Perfume. 8 chromolithographed plates touched in pochoir. 8vo, original pictorial boards; advertising brochure for perfumier Richard Hudnut laid into rear pocket. New York: Hudnut, 1928

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A lovely history of perfume throughout the ages, illustrating fragrance use from Ancient Greece, Rome, Egypt, and Persia, to Elizabethan England and 18th Century France.