Oct 24, 2024 - Sale 2683

Sale 2683 - Lot 44

Price Realized: $ 469
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 900
Amadis de Gaule Story Cycle, Various Authors.
Le Premier [-Quartriesme] Livre[s] de Amadis de Gaule.

Paris: Estienne Groulleau, I: 1548; II: 1550; III: 1547; IV: 1543.

Folio, four parts bound in one volume; first edition in French of the fourth book; translated by Nicolas de Herberay; with woodcut printer's device to title pages; illustrated with text woodcuts throughout (two full-paged); bound in full red morocco gilt by McLeish; the title and following three leaves of the fourth book badly toned; contents washed and pressed; this copy purchased at Christies London in 1995; 11 3/4 x 8 in.

Mortimer Harvard 18 [referring to all XII books].

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.