Apr 22, 2025 - Sale 2701

Sale 2701 - Lot 121

Price Realized: $ 3,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
Chateaubriand, François-René de (1768-1848) & Francois-Louis Schmied, illus. (1873-1941)
Les Aventures du Dernier Abencérage.

Paris: Les Bibliophiles de l'Amérique Latine, 1930.

Limited edition, quarto; copy number 83 of 140 signed by the artist in pencil, of which numbers 1-100 were reserved for members of the organization; illustrated with frontispiece, 17 full-page and 5 smaller color plates enhanced with gold and silver, signed by Schmied in pencil in the lower margin and 15 color initials; loose as issued in original printed wrappers; all housed in the publisher's blue cloth chemise and slipcase; 10 x 8 in.

[With] An additional suite printed in black-and-white inserted at rear; loose in a paper wrapper signed and numbered "3/10" by Schmied in pencil.