Oct 24 at 10:30 AM - Sale 2683 -

Sale 2683 - Lot 46

Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
Amadis de Gaule Story Cycle, Various Authors.
Le Premier [-Vingt-uniseme et Dernier] Livre[s] d'Amadis de Gaule.

Lyon: F. Didier, B. Rigaud, et Louis Cloquemin, 1577-1581.

Twenty-one 16mo volumes bound as 29 in uniform full 18th century gold-tooled red morocco (some joints cracking and endcaps chipped, at least one leaf provided in pen facsimile, not collated); ex libris the Duke of Hamilton with armorial bookplate and Charles Spencer, third Earl of Sunderland (1674-1722) with shelfmarks; sold at the Sunderland-Blenheim sale in 1881, wherein it was described as "a very rare edition not often found complete"; sold at Bonham's London in 2015; 4 1/2 x 3 in.

[Together with] a single odd volume of the 18th book, Lyon: Cloquemin, 1579, bound in full contemporary limp parchment. (30)

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.
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