Oct 24 at 10:30 AM - Sale 2683 -

Sale 2683 - Lot 45

Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
Amadis de Gaule Story Cycle, Various Authors.
Le Premier [-Quinzieme] Livre d'Amadis de Gaule.

Antwerp: Guillaume Sylvius [I-XIII], Jean Waesberghe [XIV], & Henry Heyndricx [XV], 1573-1577.

Fifteen parts in six quarto volumes; a rare complete collection of all fifteen books; illustrated throughout with text and full-page woodcuts; woodcut printer's devices and woodblock surrounds to title pages; nicely bound in full green parchment over boards, with gilt-ruled boards, gilt-decorated spines with red lettering pieces; inner gilt dentelles; gilt and hand-colored brocade paper used as pastedowns, all edges gilt; the Heber copy; with bookplates of William Horatio Crawford and Albert Natural; very nicely preserved; title page of Book IV provided in facsimile on laid paper (this information from a previous description, the facsimile is extremely expertly done); some damp staining to contents; 7 1/2 x 5 1/4 in. (6)

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.
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