Oct 24, 2013 - Sale 2327

Sale 2327 - Lot 33

Price Realized: $ 1,625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(BOOKBINDING.) Bibliothèque Nationale. Les Plus Belles Reliures de la Réunion des Bibliothèques Nationales. 42 plates showing bindings from the 6th to early 19th centuries in French libraries. Folio, 375x277 mm, modern brown morocco gilt with inlaid polychrome strapwork by Halpin-Weitz, skillfully imitating the binding for Jean Grolier in the Bibliothèque Nationale shown in plate 10, green silk doublures and endleaves; brown morocco slipcase. number sixteen of only twenty copies on Japon Impérial, from an edition of 600. Paris, (1929)