Apr 18, 2002 - Sale 1932

Sale 1932 - Lot 53

Price Realized: $ 2,760
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
CRÉBILLON, CLAUDE-PROSPER JOLYOT DE, the Younger. La Nuit et le Moment; ou, Les Matinées de Cythère. Woodcut title vignette, head- and tailpiece, and 10 explicitly erotic aquatint plates by sylvain sauvage.<> Half-title/limitation leaf. 4to, navy morocco elegantly gilt by s. ramos<> with panel design on covers of vari-colored morocco inlays with stylized floral decoration in corners, spine in 6 compartments, lettered in 2 with inlaid floral design in the rest, navy silk doublures and endleaves, original wrappers bound in, front joint restored, short crack at bottom of rear joint; morocco-edged marbled board slipcase. Paris, 1924

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one of 230 numbered copies.<