Mar 09, 2006 - Sale 2071

Sale 2071 - Lot 206

Price Realized: $ 1,495
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(COLOR THEORY.) Chevreul, Michel Eugène. De la Loi du Contraste Simultané des Couleurs et de l'Assortiment des Objets Colorés. 40 plates including one with overslip, most three-part folding sheets and all but three in color; 2 folding tables. [8], xvi, 571, [1] pages. Thick small folio, original printed boards, professionally recased and rebacked, and with minor restoration, joints starting; scattered foxing to text leaves, upper outer corners creased throughout contents (fibers not broken), folding plates occasionally creased near folds, a few with short clean tears, some marginal paper restoration. Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1889

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fiftieth anniversary edition of chevreul's masterpiece of color theory.