Apr 12, 2012 - Sale 2275

Sale 2275 - Lot 6

Price Realized: $ 750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(BAUER, MARIUS ALEXANDER JACQUES.) La Jeunesse Inaltérable et la Vie Éternelle, Conte Populaire traduit litteralement du Roumain. French translation by William Ritter. 19 etched illustrations by Bauer, including 4 full-page; 48 marginal decorations by Gerrit Willem Dijsselhof. Large 8vo, original gilt-lettered vellum, patterned endpapers after Dijsselhof, covers slightly warped, light soiling on front cover; contents clean. Amsterdam: Scheltema & Holkema, 1897

Additional Details

French version of a Romanian folk tale about the adventures of Prince Fet Frumos in his doomed quest for eternal youth and immortality, aided by a talking horse. This edition was limited to 250 numbered copies, this copy unnumbered and designated "Not For Sale."