Apr 10, 2003 - Sale 1966

Sale 1966 - Lot 92

Unsold
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
GRAFFIGNY, FRANÇOISE D'ISSEMBOURG D'HAPPONCOURT DE. Lettres d'une Péruvienne 1797 Tirage à Part [spine title]. Bound volume containing engraved portrait of Graffigny by de Launay and 8 plates by Coiny after Lefèvre, all in 2 states (before and after letters). Large 8vo, 248x162 mm, red levant gilt by Riviere & son; portraits trimmed and inlaid to size. Paris, 1797 (some plates dated 1798)

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Illustrations for 1797 Didot edition of Graffigny's epistolary novel about a kidnapped Inca princess. Cohen-de Ricci 447-48. With the bookplate of Cortlandt F. Bishop.