May 07, 2014 - Sale 2349

Sale 2349 - Lot 129

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(OLD MASTERS.) Bacheret, Alponse. Une Centaine de Peintres: The Works of One Hundred Great Masters, Engraved, with Descriptive Text. Edition de Grand Luxe. 3 volumes. 103 engravings on India and mounted, with descriptive text on facing leaves. Elephant folio, original deluxe 3/4 brown gilt extra Morocco featuring paint palette in multi-color calf in center in each volume, scuffed and rubbed; scattered foxing and dampsoiling, heaviest to gutters in rear of Volume 1; interiors mostly clean; ex-library, with bookplates, penciled numbers, and stamps in rear, internally unmarked; charming hand-made bookplate of a gold printed tree leaf created for the book by the original subscriber. Not collated and sold as is. number 929 of 1200 copies printed for Mr. Alex McDonald of Cincinnati, Ohio. Philadelphia: George Barrie, (1900)