Oct 24, 2024 - Sale 2683

Sale 2683 - Lot 47

Price Realized: $ 1,430
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
Amadis de Gaule Story Cycle, Various Authors.
Le Premier Livre de Amadis de Gaule, Traitant de Maintes Avantures d'Armes & d'Amours. Livres I-III and VI-XI.

Paris: Various printers for Jean Longis, I: 1548, II: 1550; III: 1547; VI: 1545; VII: 1546; VIII: 1548; IX: 1553; X: 1552; XI: 1554.

Eight folio volumes bound in four in uniform full limp parchment; illustrated throughout with 331 text woodcuts (some full-paged); each volume housed in a folding library box (spines fragmentary with losses; some water staining to second volume; book 2 with two copies of the leaves D2 & D5; lacking two text leaves (I3 & I4) in book 8); 13 1/4 x 8 1/2 in. (4)

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.